tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33470703691778226192024-03-18T21:49:20.719-07:00Say What?! Two girls trying to find their place in this weird wonderful world!Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-4323775312755344182024-03-17T13:17:00.000-07:002024-03-17T13:17:37.972-07:00Social Media Break<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Happy St. Patrick’s Day ! That means Lent is nearly over and I have to
admit this Social Media Break has been a little tougher than in years past. I haven’t
really missed it …. I’ve thought about keeping this break going through the
election. I promised when we started this thing that I would avoid politics and
I meant it. It does grind my gears that all these years later and we are back
where we started and that just seems stupid on so many levels.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">However during this break I have thought several times about specific
people that I “check in” with on the various social media apps and wondered how
they are doing. Golden has kept me informed of news events I need to know about
and she has apparently created a TickyTock playlist for me assuming that we are
all still allowed to use TickyTock by the time I get back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So what have I been up to ?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I got to take a work trip in late Feb. as part of that trip I got to
see Golden, walk around a bookstore and eat some good food. I also got to go
watch my boss get inducted into the Engineering Hall of Fame which was really
really cool. See he’s amazing. I helped prepare his application for induction even
after he told us to stop. He said he wouldn’t win so I doubled down. I really
wanted this for him. When we found out he won he looked me right in the eye and
said I want you there. I said yes sir. I booked my hotel room and waited fro
someone to steal my seat. Turns out he bought his OWN table for his family
(brothers/sisters) and I had a seat at that table. I felt super important and
got to meet many people who I’ve e-mailed many times over the years but never
talked to in person. That was pretty cool.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My nephew and his wife just celebrated their one year anniversary. I
think they had a good time, they are hoping to take a trip once the summer
starts to really celebrate it. I hope they do. They have been through a lot
this year but they are still standing, things are still moving forward. They
are about to move from a cramped townhouse to a starter house (renting) with a
yard for their big furbaby. My nephew is about to finish his college life and I
think that’s sinking in some. The real world is waiting I’m not sure he’s ready
but he’s going to figure it out quickly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I just got a new phone …. I got the Samsung S24+ mine was ok … but it
was starting to lag and kept telling me it had no storage even though I had
removed everything I could off of it. I just got tired of fighting it and said I’m
gonna get a new one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My Auburn Tigers have just lit up the place in basketball and my
gymnastics team is gearing up for the SEC tournament. My poor Gymnastics team
they were doing so well and the last few meets seemed to have gone off the rails.
The SEC Gymnastics championship are in Baton Rouge and I almost bought tickets
but cooler heads prevailed. I mean I just bought a phone, taxes are coming up, and
work is still moving pretty fast. I like to think they miss my peptalks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Golden and I did secure out Dragon Con memberships the other … yippie
something to look forward too! :D I am also hoping to get to her house for her
birthday again this year. If nothing else we’ll be in the same room. We might both
be sleeping through the movie of choice …there will also be laughter, fun, and
good food.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So until I get back online … I hope you are all doing well, having a
good week/day and I’ll see you all again soon!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-31641730937889892862024-01-01T16:29:00.000-08:002024-01-01T16:29:47.873-08:00Happy …. Whatever.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzXqzY0F_7Co4VK6G_vWO6pLvrN7cmegDsZObiHBrzx4K7Yi6JWXJgn43NEZnR8m8OWbjHBVS5n0OjVA2XE0ifLht0z6eZ1P4UE1TVJzbk2ff1_X_HrKWnbSP14SF7MwxSWbXfKSbCvfE22zrLRANVmPvKpiWOLjbWLcjXDlUmaPNZ53mQBY8u7Ytl_Rp/s2325/Happy-New-Year-2024-Golden-metal-number-T2YZESW-0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1273" data-original-width="2325" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzXqzY0F_7Co4VK6G_vWO6pLvrN7cmegDsZObiHBrzx4K7Yi6JWXJgn43NEZnR8m8OWbjHBVS5n0OjVA2XE0ifLht0z6eZ1P4UE1TVJzbk2ff1_X_HrKWnbSP14SF7MwxSWbXfKSbCvfE22zrLRANVmPvKpiWOLjbWLcjXDlUmaPNZ53mQBY8u7Ytl_Rp/s320/Happy-New-Year-2024-Golden-metal-number-T2YZESW-0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It must be a New Year cause everyone keeps telling me that it is, and people
are posting these long eloquent write ups about what kind of year they have had
and their hopes and prayers for the aforementioned new year. I know I should be
one of those people. The kind of wants to document the year prior, see if there
is anything I can learn form it as I move into a new calendar but I just don’t
have it in me this year.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I didn’t have a BAD year per say nor did I have a great year with
things that stand out so that makes this process hard cause it feels like
another wasted year. Let’s see the year started off with me battling a kidney
stone, but I didn’t know it yet (cause I’m stubborn and don’t like doctors).
Then my mother almost blead to death, which was super unpleasant. Mom’s emergency
surgery took place not even a week after my kidney stone surgery so helping her
recover while I was still recovering was a challenge, but she’s doing great so
that’s a positive. She has like the smallest stomach in the world but she’s
here and she cooked New Year’s Day lunch today, which was delicious, and for
that I’m grateful. Then about a month or less after mom got out of the hospital
my oldest nephew got married. Literally. Like from one massive activity to
another in very quick succession. I broke his heart cause while mom was still
in ICU he asked if she was going to make it to the wedding and I told him that
was the least of my concerns at the moment. I meant what I said and I said it
with my whole chest. My mom surviving was my entire focus at that moment and while
I hate I broke his heart I’d do it again. She did in fact make it to the wedding,
was dragged all over that church by the photographer and she never complained. She
was exhausted and spent for the next 4 days but she watched the baby she helped
raise (she kept him while his parents worked until he started school) walk down
the aisle and get married. She had already made my dad and I promise that we would
go even if she couldn’t and we had made plans incase she couldn’t go. Lucky it
all worked </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">out,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but it was a very stressful Jan/Feb/March to say the least.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Oh and in the middle of all that I turned 44.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MYVIK32xmeXlSoEIokEEu084WFu22OC77e_NqNWDp1n7K50XnLhH9sjYu545DTaGCCp5JvnEuolOQ9rCv0a4t8tb8Io7qZt1G0Ro3mPBzVeSK2v9rTUXUOoKPcFRG07dQnIIPpl9-nRaOksdLzoHXch5cR7Y-7D6hlfaIhmfa8Up6ts4rcH9KQHfODK7/s1304/Top%20Golf%202023%20AWB.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1304" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MYVIK32xmeXlSoEIokEEu084WFu22OC77e_NqNWDp1n7K50XnLhH9sjYu545DTaGCCp5JvnEuolOQ9rCv0a4t8tb8Io7qZt1G0Ro3mPBzVeSK2v9rTUXUOoKPcFRG07dQnIIPpl9-nRaOksdLzoHXch5cR7Y-7D6hlfaIhmfa8Up6ts4rcH9KQHfODK7/s320/Top%20Golf%202023%20AWB.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In April, I took my younger nephew and his friends to play Top Golf
for the first time in Birmingham (the closest facility to where he lived) and we
had a great time. I got to stay with my older nephew and his new bride (first houseguest
for them), I got to spend a crapton of money on the nephew, and I had a really
good time. It was a quick trip. Up on Friday, back on Sunday kind of trip but a
good one. It was on that trip that I made a very important decision. See Golden
was supposed to join us for Top Golf. However, her beloved Beetle … well blew
up. Literally. As I am driving my parents van home (large enough to hold the
group going to b’ham) I couldn’t stop thinking about Golden’s situation. See I
have been watching a Hyundai Kona for years … I am going to say 4 or 5 (maybe
longer) and I really really really really really wanted that car. However, my Hyundai
Sonata was too good a car to just give up. I thought about trading it in but it
was just too good of a car to even think about getting something else. So I waited.
Every time I saw that car drive by tho I pointed it out. I loved that car. I
had a very specific car in mind that I wanted tho. Hyundai Kona N Class Grey
with grey interior, red accents, sport seats, and a sunroof. I must have built
that car like a thousand times on their website only to back out cause I didn’t
“need” a car. On that drive home it hit me ….. GOLDEN NEEDED A CAR …. I had a
car … and I wanted a new car. The wheels started turning. I got home called Dad
and immediately told him my plan. He said and I quote, “That’s a crazy reason
to buy a car.” Then mom looked at him in disbelief and looked over at me and
said “I think it sounds brilliant. You deserve this … do it.” I had been saving
like a miser to get this car for a very long time. I had the budget to do it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCS0otuXAzoKzPxk8BhDo9q1UJipaifq-fC1VOg_GJScKrckonlc4F1y6cQ9eaNVkFYdhQJ2LGC8Tlna_EISxbHnMEqbFvHLjKwMUejgGtV81QECTd86HBPEyU6tX7nK8bwljBSFSCKPrxXp6ZbdRUA4VWlRV1cRXnb4Y5Rdm1jYCY5UhTDKCK6YpeoCJ/s1440/350103223_292880463075756_1442462377927964112_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCS0otuXAzoKzPxk8BhDo9q1UJipaifq-fC1VOg_GJScKrckonlc4F1y6cQ9eaNVkFYdhQJ2LGC8Tlna_EISxbHnMEqbFvHLjKwMUejgGtV81QECTd86HBPEyU6tX7nK8bwljBSFSCKPrxXp6ZbdRUA4VWlRV1cRXnb4Y5Rdm1jYCY5UhTDKCK6YpeoCJ/s320/350103223_292880463075756_1442462377927964112_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I usually get to work about 45 minutes early. Around here traffic can
turn on you very quickly. 5 minutes on either side of the clock can cost you 15-20
minutes very easily. I’d rather be there early than risk being late. I used to
go right in and get to work. Lately I’ve been sititng in my car playing on my
phone for about 30-40 minutes then drag myself out of the car and into the
building (I really gotta get out of that habit). On this day I used that time
to do a search on the Hyundai website for my Hyundai. I found one yall….. like 30
minutes from Golden’s house. It was PERFECT! Like someone was telling me to do
this for my friend. I filled in the information and asked someone to call me
back. I had a call back in less than 2 hours. I spoke with the guy, we settled
on some things and I explained what I was trying to do. I asked if he could
hold it. He said yes but not long. See I still hadn’t talked to Golden. Maybe
she doesn’t want my car. So, I hung up promising to give him an answer by the
end of day. I texted Golden and asked if she had a few minutes to talk. She
said sure is everything ok. I shut my door. I called her and I really believe
she was in disbelief about what I was telling her. I basically told her that she
could go out and buy something or I could do this, and she could have more time
to get something she really wanted/liked as opposed to what was there. My car was
a 2013 (bought in 2012) so it wasn’t like I was giving her a new car, but it
was well cared for. It wasn’t going to last her forever but could last her another
3-5, maybe even 10 years. It wasn’t perfect it has some dings; the dash was
cracking like crazy, paint was chipping in a few places but it was and is a
good car. She really didn’t know what to say and I think she was afraid of
getting her hopes up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I got with dad, told him what the guy and I talked about, he suggested
I counter with this other price, and I was like um ok… the guy said let him see
what he could do. They countered and met us halfway. I was pleased. He was gonna
get the paperwork going. I called Golden to say it was a Go. While we were on the
phone the car guy beeped in. Another dealer had just sold MY CAR. I was devastated.
I knew it was all coming together to easily. He tried to sell me on another and
I said no it has to be that car, that set up, those colors that’s the car I want.
That’s the car I’ve been dreaming about for years. He said let me see what I can
do. I called Golden and we were both exhausted by this roller coaster. The dealer
asked for me to give him until Lunch. I said ok. 10am … he calls. I found it, I
don’t have it yet but I found it. I’ll call you back as soon as I have it. I
said same car as yesterday he said yes. I’ll send you a picture as soon as I have
it. I was confused by that but said ok. I called dad, I called Golden and I
called the bank. I didn’t know how long it took to get a </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">cashier’s</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> check. Then I
didn’t hear from him again until nearly 10 pm. I was like well there we go it
was all too easy. Sigh. Golden was trying to figure out how to get to work the
next day and I was sad. At 10 I get a text from the dealer. It was a picture of
a car in a parking lot. It had just arrived from the swap me made with a dealer
in TN. It was MY CAR, same color, same trim, same accessories as the one had and
it was perfect. He said the next morning the guys would do the Hyundai
inspection on it, and they could be driving to me by 10am. I was like wait the
whole point is getting mine to Golden. He said due to all the trouble the dealer
was willing to drive it down to me and drive my car back for Golden to pick up
for free. I was like I’m sorry, what? For no additional money they were going
to do that for me. I said let’s do it. He told me the total, I paid the deposit
on my credit card, the rest by money order and I had purchased a car, mostly
via text which blew my father’s mind. I called Golden and I tossed and turned
all night. The next day was like a weird dream. I went to work, waiting for the
bank to open so I could get the cashier’s check then came home and cleaned my Sonata
like it had never been cleaned before. I almost cried when it left my driveway and
prayed that the guy wouldn’t have any problems on the drive back I got my dream
car and helped a friend out at the same time. We did the bill of sale stuff
Golden sent me a check, I sent everything with the car so she could do the tag
thing and to this day I’m afraid some glitch in the matrix happened cause it
was all too smooth and perfect. I am still waiting for something to go wrong,
even after all this time. It was a win win win and I was so very happy to do
it. To this day it’s the coolest thing I’ve ever been able to do for a friend and
while that was awesome, I can’t tell you how happy this car has made me. So, for
me that’s my highlight of the year. I don’t know if I’ll ever top that nor will
I try. Mighty, Golden's furbaby was very confused as to why my car was tehre but i was not. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfbdZKgQVbz4zlpeid0XnMc4Fv5TNPvG25_bNwARWA2Zevle8Nat1ZQpJEMPhYasOqwL88mafkx1iOO3dobYTPhyphenhyphen1kzQN7gHQ1oMq25_GyS9jZdy3LfWh6Te5dpIxgtX4bZj-JE8cj79W7uDjrmjqlxKXLxiwrPtVH5zeMeZbrRuLfU3hwJpeYMDaDLYX/s851/Karma%20Mighty.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfbdZKgQVbz4zlpeid0XnMc4Fv5TNPvG25_bNwARWA2Zevle8Nat1ZQpJEMPhYasOqwL88mafkx1iOO3dobYTPhyphenhyphen1kzQN7gHQ1oMq25_GyS9jZdy3LfWh6Te5dpIxgtX4bZj-JE8cj79W7uDjrmjqlxKXLxiwrPtVH5zeMeZbrRuLfU3hwJpeYMDaDLYX/s320/Karma%20Mighty.JPG" width="174" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In May, a month after the car swap, I drove to Golden’s to watch her niece
graduate and to celebrate Golden’s birthday. We went to the zoo, a tradition I
haven’t been able to participate in years, and I had a very lovely time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Aug/Sept Golden and I made it back to Dragon
Con for some much-needed time away, fun and laughter. We decided to venture
north and found a really cool bookstore, which made for a nice relaxing drive
to the con. Which was nice cause life was trying to suck the very life out of
me and Golden and continues to do so. Golden's niece has just finished her first semester in college and seems to be doing really well there. I am very proud of her. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfh26xpxKkevV3bjDwN9TuN2HERi-gLyyYEX4Ol5qiIyxXdNtbJxriiLvv075BEuTIS86mStkXGw6MNZ4h_4TIL3mdhiHoXXsZOWJWKgCYhXSsrQz1r54BS_GVT1phYW-l-exI5JO8K4665LoNA7nZqMAbqjP9Ze4H0rgdGSJMfjSaz6r9kFdbqpnpr_jk/s653/GAD.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="476" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfh26xpxKkevV3bjDwN9TuN2HERi-gLyyYEX4Ol5qiIyxXdNtbJxriiLvv075BEuTIS86mStkXGw6MNZ4h_4TIL3mdhiHoXXsZOWJWKgCYhXSsrQz1r54BS_GVT1phYW-l-exI5JO8K4665LoNA7nZqMAbqjP9Ze4H0rgdGSJMfjSaz6r9kFdbqpnpr_jk/s320/GAD.JPG" width="233" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In October, my oldest nephew and his wife suffered a devastating heartbreak
and while they are still dealing with the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">aftereffects</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> of </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">it,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> they are still
intact as a couple and are going to come out of this stronger I truly believe
that even if they don't yet. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In November, I started dealing with some more weird health issues. I used
to have really high blood pressure but suddenly I have very low blood pressure.
It runs in the family, and I am not a small girl, and I have a horrible diet. I'</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">d tell you </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I'm</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> going to work on </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">that,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but history says otherwise. However suddenly this year it started just dropping out of nowhere. I'm
walking along and boom all dizzy and grabbing at walls about to pass out. I can
hear my heartbeat, I can feel my heartbeat (sometimes it feels like it's about
to leap out of my body...most of the time it feels like I'm on vibrate, or
there is a techno show happening in the front yard). I haven’t taken my BP meds
in over a month, and it keep bottoming out which is just crazy pants. I have
been keeping a journal of my blood pressure since my last visit and have a follow
up later this month. I think it’s stressing Golden out too. There really doesn’t
seem to be a rhyme or reason for it. In December Golden had a very invasive
sinus surgery which she is still recovering from. So when I say 2023 can go …..
I mean it can go and I’m ready for a New Year I’m just not optimistic that some
of the 2023 crap won’t come with it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">So,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> consider this my year in recap I guess …….. and I didn’t even get
into the work stuff which had its own drama and hell running through it but
that’s another post … maybe.... or maybe </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">leave</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> that in 2023. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I hope everyone has a great start to 2024 and that we all keep moving
forward cause at the end of the day that’s all we can do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-77081426038494597952023-11-30T19:29:00.000-08:002023-11-30T19:29:41.961-08:002023 Christmas TV Calendar <p> I have a confession ……… there’s too much Christmas … I mean honestly,
everyone slow down. I can’t imagine as an actor how it feels to be all
Christmasy in like February but then again they shoot Halloween Wars in January
so BOOM take that Christmas! I’ve always wondered how they keep their pumpkins
so fresh …. and how do they convince a farm to hold out that many pumpkins ?! Maybe
they delay their planting and use greenhouses ….. wait … this one is about the
big guy in the Red suit, the reindeer with the red nose, the snowman in a magic
hat, the geeky mouse that broke the clock, and the poor 4 eyed kid in a pink
bunny costume! In case you are living in a cave with no electricity it is
already Christmas, or as my bestie calls it Crimmus. Not sure how that happened
but calendars don’t lie ….. the clocks often do but calendars are <b><i>always</i></b>
trustworthy. You could think it’s 3 but it’s actually 1 or worse it’s 7 … but
even if you think it’s Tuesday and it’s actually Thursday well it will never NOT
be Thursday it will always be the day it’s suppose to be. Every.Single.time.
Trust me. It’s a thing! Wait … how did you get my calendar in your cave?!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will admit that this one was easier than Halloween, but it
usually is. It’s crammed tight with nostalgia, new offerings, and remixes of
old fun family favorites told in what they hope is a new and “interesting” way…spoiler
alert it’s usually not. By the way … THIS … is how holiday fun should be. Now I
admit, Hallmark just went stupid, as they do every year, and started showing
these things in like March. Truth is that I’m not even sure they have a time
when they aren’t showing Christmas offerings. God love em they know their
audience and they deliver the goods. I do admit hearing the Freddy Theme Song
as you also hear Jingle Bells coming from the next room is a little
discombobulating, yet…oddly comforting too. No bad Marcy …. This is about
Crimmus not Halloween. Get it together!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To prove my point, I present you with this …. there’s
Hallmark Channels 2023 “Countdown to Christmas” which I believe started a few
days <b><i>before</i></b> Halloween ended and replaced their Christmas in July or
some jazz like that …. there’s UPtv’s “Uplifting Christmas” with over 600 hours
of holiday cheer (yet oddly didn’t really make my calendar cause I don’t get
that channel anymore *sad face* … I think even Hallmark said sit down UPtv ….
There’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” on well…Lifetime (come on guys some of
these are easy) …. TBS is having a “Winter Break” …. you can find the “The Best
Christmas Ever” on AMC, “Nickmas” is on Nickelodeon (<b><i><u>Question</u></i></b>….
how many Nicks are in the Nickelodeon theme song … asking for a friend… who is
me – PS I say 7, if you say 8 we can’t be friends anymore, just kidding we
totes can but you are wrong) and of course “25 Days of Christmas” on Freeform
…the OG of Holiday fun. Not to mention all the streaming stuff cause well you
have all heard my rant about that and I just don’t have the energy for that
again. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, my point is the calendar is full … it’s the fullest
calendar I’ve done in years and frankly I really enjoyed it. You might need a magnifying
glass to read it but that’s what ZOOM is for right?! Right?! I tried to include
as many new offerings as I could and yes sometimes a beloved had to go. Sorry
Clark! While Halloween was kind of a catastrophic failure on my part, I hope I
have redeemed myself with this one. I know I have renewed my love for doing
these so I am going to take that W. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A few items of note because I don’t want you to miss these
and that is the purpose after all… <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>TBS</b> is airing the new <b>A Christmas
Story Christmas</b> released on HBO/MAX last year!!!!!! Oh, Happy Day!!!!! Don’t
worry tho the Christmas Day Marathon is still the original movie only, I
checked! I mean they aren’t that insane. You don’t mess with tradition. But the
fact that this one is now going to get to be watched by the masses makes me
happy. They are showing equal love to the original but oddly the sequel from 2012
isn’t getting any love at all. If you have seen it you know why! Don’t yell at TED
it’s not his fault. I have to warn you my mom finds A Christmas Story Christmas
to be a bit depressing but what does mom know, well a lot but still it is a
good movie. The gentle nod to the original, the returning original actors, a
catch up of the characters and what they have been up to, a lot of love to the
Old man and an original story all make up for the sadness. Give it a go let me
know what you think cause I love it! Thanks Marvel for giving us back Ralphie!
IYKYK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>NEW Shows for the Win! </b>As stated, there
are several <b><i>new</i></b> items on the calendar, I haven’t watched them,
but I am interested in many of them cause well at least they are new. I like
new. I like original. I enjoy the old school seen it a thousand times, but will
watch it again and again whenever it is on too but new … makes me giddy. Do
some research before you put Sally in front of the TV with popcorn or plop little
Bailey down in your lap for something that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i></b> deem inappropriate …that’s not
my mess. Take it up with your facebook friends on how horrible it is so they
can justify themselves as well by sharing in your fake outrage. Or just take it
for what it is .. a lesson learned for both you and your offspring. You are
welcome! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Speaking of Bailey … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God Love Hallmark for getting Scott Wolf and
Lacy Chabert back together for a new Christmas movie called “A Merry Scottish
Christmas” and no before you ask these two are not love interests, but are in
fact playing siblings. I think they even realized how problematic that could
be. I have seen it cause of course it premiered in November as part of their
lead up to Christmas. I not only set my DVR but counted down the minutes until
it started and I could wait 30 minutes or so in an effort to not have to watch commercials.
I didn’t succeed. It’s good, predictable in a Hallmark movie kind of way but …
good. I’d watch it again and I plan to. I am so excited about this movie, for
many reasons that have little to do with the story line of said movie … so it’s
getting a lot of love on this calendar and I’m not even going to apologize for
it. Full disclosure … Don’t show up if you are expecting Bailey and Claudia (HEY
Fox isn’t it time to find out what the Salinger clan has been up to all these
years?). Bonus points if you catch the nod to their FOX show Party of Five. However,
do show up if you still love Scott Wolf’s dimples, which I do, or like seeing Lacey’s
doe eyed look every time those dimples are on display. If you haven’t seen
Party of Five and are like what is this crazy lady talking about … I have all
the episodes on VHS and DVD and can hook you up. I’m just gonna need you to put
down a deposit and leave a note saying you promise to take care of it and
promptly return it or I’ll send over the law. It’s that good. For me it’s right
up there with Sports Night, another excellent show that you should totally check
out … you know in January after all this holiday madness ends. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>AMC is the marathon machine….</b> Like for
reals. At various points of the month, they have dedicated theme nights. Dec. 9<sup>th</sup>
is “Merry 80’s Marathon” …. Dec. 10<sup>th</sup> “So Many Santas Marathon” ….
Dec. 16<sup>th</sup> “Best Elf Marathon” …. Dec. 17<sup>th</sup> “Holiday
Hijinks Marathon” ….. and my favorite Dec 26<sup>th</sup> as the “Holiday
Hangover” I think there’s even one for Reece Witherspoon. If you are stuck and
can’t figure out what to watch check out AMC and see what they are offering. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>CNN Heroes:</b> An All Star Tribute will air
on Dec. 10<sup>th</sup> at 7. It’s always a great reminder that in the doom and
gloom of the world there are people attempting to make things better and good
for them, better for us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Kennedy Center Honors<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will air on CBS Dec.</b> 27<sup>th</sup> at 8
it’s another good program to remind you that there are very good humans in this
world but this one leans more to the celebrity side while CNN’s version is for
the everyday man. This year’s honorees include Billy Crystal, Reneee Fleming,
Barry Gibb, Dionne Warwick and my Queen …. Dana Owens. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->As always if you are looking for something to
throw the littles in front of while you wrap gifts, bake, shop online, drink a
glass or three of wine, scroll on your phone, or just need a minute … <b><i>Freeform</i></b>
is the place for you. Their love for Claymation is admirable and while not all
the offerings are eyeball worthy they do have a very impressive lineup again
this year. May we all bow to the awesome that is Freeform this time of year. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now for …the rules. If you are an OG user of this calendar,
feel free to skip ahead. If you are new to the party …. Well, you want to read
on or face my wrath. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">NO E-MAILS about taking Christ out of
Christmas</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, it’s just a really long word and using X-Mas allows for more
shows on the already full calendar. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thanks for your understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For those that don’t understand I’ll be glad
to remove you from the list, just let me know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I live in the central time zone, the times on
this calendar reflect that, adjust accordingly</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That said unless otherwise stated the times
are PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Late Hour Focus, but hour round fun. </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For you work
from home people, stay at home mom’s, or employers who have access to good wifi
…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they run these specials all day long,
and while my calendar focuses mainly on the after-work hour times since that is
when I can watch (especially during the week), fire it up as background noise
for that meeting that you are totes paying attention to, or while you edit that
really long annoying document.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Much like the Halloween one ….. I have been doing this one
for at least 15 years …. The goal is to set aside some time for the holiday
cheer to enter your soul …. for those shows and stories we all grew up with to
fill your heart with happiness … and most importantly to stop…breathe…take a
minute … then jump back out there into the madness that is the holiday season. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Merry Christmas to you all …. and I hope you each have a
wonderful and safe New Years. Here’s to a fantastic 2024 for us all ! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marcy <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-BojuOzuVK3x5SXtToCsiOVYwHnj218iusqN1jMcP0E1mIyCmM4o_9N4drG7gNjNUhwJYKBpkkJbrUtR9AtQv_NZ64EuULzLRDnlvS3RkC6LknCdH5Ls6Pl3Iv2egR3uoS667PoRqHmyIoERsZpFjMex39_rzN5RD3KPk9-ReuzYc6DqmIHO9mI17hn3/s5100/2023%20Christmas%20TV%20Calendar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="5100" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-BojuOzuVK3x5SXtToCsiOVYwHnj218iusqN1jMcP0E1mIyCmM4o_9N4drG7gNjNUhwJYKBpkkJbrUtR9AtQv_NZ64EuULzLRDnlvS3RkC6LknCdH5Ls6Pl3Iv2egR3uoS667PoRqHmyIoERsZpFjMex39_rzN5RD3KPk9-ReuzYc6DqmIHO9mI17hn3/w640-h414/2023%20Christmas%20TV%20Calendar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-1789687123078252862023-11-27T08:30:00.000-08:002023-12-02T09:02:33.870-08:00Blog with a purpose – Giving Tuesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawgcljjrw2ybpCmWcg07C7vhWl2oYD9SUptDt0w8VNGwVeqI1wSda14_wUUZDvBNrqnSGofUg9HL47jdO13HOlbSiXHPrXrmwOFHGQwH9BwfwCveVUUrdbQOo7hNTE_tOqobwKMcSXDmu40Wd3Q9b_clYykiRPuGGzDgCMbunff8cMER7m3VM1GnAotR8/s1280/giving-tuesday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawgcljjrw2ybpCmWcg07C7vhWl2oYD9SUptDt0w8VNGwVeqI1wSda14_wUUZDvBNrqnSGofUg9HL47jdO13HOlbSiXHPrXrmwOFHGQwH9BwfwCveVUUrdbQOo7hNTE_tOqobwKMcSXDmu40Wd3Q9b_clYykiRPuGGzDgCMbunff8cMER7m3VM1GnAotR8/s320/giving-tuesday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What I’m doing two blog posts this week!? It must be a holiday that …
or I’m avoiding cleaning. I’m not really sure why holiday’s make me remember
that this thing </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">exists,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but they do and here I am.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">One of my </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">all-time</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> favorite shows, Sports Night, did a show called “The
Quality of Mercy at 29K.” It’s truly a fantastic episode (then they all were
really) that was about these guys climbing to the top of Mt. Everest which the
sports network CSC, that hosts “Sports Night,” is covering. However, it’s the
side stories that stay with me. One of the main characters “Dan” </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">had some</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> “extra money” that he needed to use or
be taxed on and walked around the office all day asking people what do they
like to give their money too. The show, which I really suggest you find and watch, highlighted a lot of charities and
organizations that are worthy of your time and your money. Some said homelessness,
some said cancer research, some said the arts (shoutout to Montgomery, AL), a
few jokingly said food and rent, and some just gave money to the guy down on
their luck as they walked to and from the office which is based in New York.
Then one of the characters, Natalie turns to Dan at some point and says, “The
Key is to get in the game.” Meaning it didn’t matter where he decided to put
his money to but he just needed to give. Every little bit makes a </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">difference,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> and you just need to find a group you are passionate about and give to that.
You can’t give to </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">everything,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but you can give something. That always stuck with
me. . . . I mean to this day I had forgotten all about the Mt. Everest business
until I looked it up for this blog. So Nat…. I’m getting back into the game.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As I have mentioned before I decided that this blog needed more of a
purpose than a place for me to list journal entries which is what this thing
has pretty much become. Interesting enough but I could be doing more with this
space. At least every once in a while. In between some computer issues and </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">life,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> I ended up with 2 ….. 2 of these “Blog with a Purpose” postings … and well that’s
just sad. There are 265 days, 12 months, and roughly 30 days each month and I
only came up with 2 of these … well I can’t have that. So here’s the next one …
oh 3 … :D go me! Heck by the end of the year I might make it 4 … but no
promises.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Incase you are wondering the postings so far have included: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2023/01/blog-with-purpose-triumph-over-tragedy.html">Triumph over Tragedy</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2023/06/blog-with-purpose-debra.html">DEBRA</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As many of you know Thanksgiving was last Thursday, then we had the
holy grail that is Black Friday, a wonderful day of knocking your fellow man
down for a TV or the hottest toy of the season etc., and of course we will then
have Cyber Monday and in the last ten years or so that’s all followed by #GivingTuesday.
The theory being that you have now spent enough on yourself and others that if
there is any left it would be good to give it back. Giving Tuesday has taken on
many forms …. Online donations … volunteering at local food banks and shelters…whatever
you decide to do is fine as long as you do….. something. Much like Dan you just
have to get into the game. Not saying a blog posting by me here would boost
anything, but at least I can say I gave it some spotlight if only for a small
moment in time and with the tiniest bulb out there. What they do with it after
that … well that’s on them!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So here are a few organizations that I feel are worthy of your time
and dollars if you are, like Dan, looking for something to give those extra
dollars to this time of year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://givetotriumph.org/">Triumph over Tragedy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.thebrotherstrust.org/">The Brother’s Trust</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://secure2.wish.org/site/TR;jsessionid=00000000.app20008a?px=3515444&fr_id=4717&pg=personal&NONCE_TOKEN=A224A7FB9650D8C15786E2F5CCE5FB8C">Make-A-Wish</a> this link is to the account that a friend of mine runs to raise funds for Make-A-Wish (for full disclosure) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.kidsneedtoread.org/">Kids Need To Read</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Cause we are a duo … I asked <a href="https://twitter.com/theonlygolden">Golden</a> what she’d add to this list and these
are her suggestion for charities/organizations worth your time and possibly
your dollars …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/537313/?utm_medium=advertising&utm_source=bing&utm_campaign=yearend/&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&msclkid=fe31b8d46a121f946e56ddb7881ccdff#!/donation/checkout?c_src=UMCOV241150261">Trevor Project</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://truecolorsunited.org/">True Colors United</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/psearch-monthly-tabbed?ms=ADD2310U1U98&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-BS-BS-ALL-DonateDWB.All-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.2-ONETIME&msclkid=a52fa5bb74a51859246ec0d896decc20">Doctors Without Boarders/Medicins Sans Frontiers</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://donate.nami.org/give/197406/?msclkid=fc8860b329cb140977be05d0cb538a40&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Evergreen%20Donation&utm_term=NAMI&utm_content=2023#!/donation/checkout?utm_source=globalNav&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=DonationTracking&c_src=ADGTS23">NAMI</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.rif.org/">Reading is Fundamental</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://imaginationlibrary.com/">Dolly’s Imagination Library</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Many of these organizations are having matching funds to really maximize your donation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you are looking for something closer to home .... You can go to your local elementary or high schools and see what support they need or pay of a </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">student's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> fees so they can start off the new year without that hanging over their head. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Don’t get me wrong I know that this time of year it’s hard to scrape together
a few extra bucks for anything but just know that your money is not the only
thing that these organizations need. Donate time to animal shelters or drop off
food, toys, treats, clothing, puppy pads. You can also drop off newspapers or gently
used blankets/comforters/towels and donate those items as well. Find and
support your local little libraries found in your town (locate one near you by going <a href="https://littlefreelibrary.org/">here</a> …. ) by
dropping off books or reaching out to the person who stocks them to see what
they need. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Food banks, blood banks, nursing homes, there are various ways to get involved that only cost time you just have to look for them. Time is very </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">valuable,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but the reward is also very high. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Again,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> it’s all about getting involved in </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">any way</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> that you can. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Then there are Angel Trees, Sock Drives, Hat & Glove </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Ministries,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Toys for Tots, Salvation Army buckets at every major store this time of year... once you fall down the rabbit hole you end up like Dan and </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">paralyzed</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> to do anything. So just leap cause it really is true ... any amount no matter how small or how large makes a difference. That's really the point after all ... making a difference. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Who are you reaching out to this year that’s not in the list above but
should be ?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://twitter.com/beaslma">Marcy</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-46813905143189540872023-11-23T16:39:00.000-08:002023-11-23T18:00:34.799-08:00HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxVyPOcTSQIcfF248k4pwC2TaG5rEh7XcxZnHgMU4ateXd5domDMS1EgwGoVjGnJUEzm_47rQRznYyXyExhHWY2G3TiCDgm8RNCwRjD7oHlyRhxJE6UdHrErbRcQpfivSIECyLBnpJRdml9qaZrdNNbsEzdU8Ib82lUlLmnFbscKkL_BUwETckoAjrBov/s2048/404929267_6949028191827918_6452866705413073824_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2048" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxVyPOcTSQIcfF248k4pwC2TaG5rEh7XcxZnHgMU4ateXd5domDMS1EgwGoVjGnJUEzm_47rQRznYyXyExhHWY2G3TiCDgm8RNCwRjD7oHlyRhxJE6UdHrErbRcQpfivSIECyLBnpJRdml9qaZrdNNbsEzdU8Ib82lUlLmnFbscKkL_BUwETckoAjrBov/s320/404929267_6949028191827918_6452866705413073824_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s Turkey day !!!! I hope by now the Turkey has been consumed, the dressing
is safely in your belly, the pie and cakes have been sliced and the <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2014/11/happy-drunksgiving-eve.html">drunksgiving</a>
antics are fully underway wherever you are as you read this. We had over 10 at
our table this year and all the food was delicious. We had turkey (cooked by my
nephew on his new big green egg), dressing (made by me <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2014/11/thankfulness-challenge-day-26.html">using this recipe</a>), green
bean casserole, candied sweet potatoes, creamed corn (all made by mom), lima beans,
deviled eggs (made by my niece), and broccoli salad (made by my SIL). It was Andrew's first time manning the turkey and he did a great job with it. </span></p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-y0KBlcgz80aGRnF1sB6pjGQMH2t0A0YWJyg5sUXYA4lf9P3U4YZLXDAfO5iDWbtgkKxlZZRU7K8nmHFpEQMJlskJDk2l8eWdlxlH5Ffc2KnF6PkbE1_XRSKJ8HEkAkBWyntXFUG0DE4bgMnRp18XzgdFzgkzfb97MfJREC3MhNficMmwnwziuu4Y-dJV/s1280/403174429_6945186705545400_4754209978031314369_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-y0KBlcgz80aGRnF1sB6pjGQMH2t0A0YWJyg5sUXYA4lf9P3U4YZLXDAfO5iDWbtgkKxlZZRU7K8nmHFpEQMJlskJDk2l8eWdlxlH5Ffc2KnF6PkbE1_XRSKJ8HEkAkBWyntXFUG0DE4bgMnRp18XzgdFzgkzfb97MfJREC3MhNficMmwnwziuu4Y-dJV/s320/403174429_6945186705545400_4754209978031314369_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am very thankful for my family, even if I did fall asleep on the
couch after lunch and missed the hanging out and catching up time with them
today. I don’t snore! Ok I might. Look I live alone a little snoring has never
bothered me. I am lucky to be surrounded by my parents who are still together (53
years strong), my older by 4 years brother and his wife live nearby, their boys
still want to come over and spend time with the family. My oldest nephew who
just turned 24 got married this past year and his wife (my new niece), also 24 is
a fantastic addition to our family. They are still learning to navigate the pitfalls
of married life but they are a great duo and are finding their way. They are so far navigating the my family or your family aspect of
life and holidays. My other nephew is a sophomore in college and has the most adorable
girlfriend who joined us today for the holiday. She and he will be having
Thanksgiving dinner with her family </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">tonight. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">As I waited on my family to arrive today I thought about the athletes, coaches, support staff and their own families sacrificing time to play the sport they love from the collegiate level to the pro level to play the sport they love. It must be a pretty lonely thing when you are the one who can't fill that chair at your families table. I bet their families miss them very much. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I remember holidays spent in cars driving from one hose to another and
spending a few hours at each and eating and playing and wishing it were time to
go back home. I slept in this morning, helped prepare our house for the
onslaught of people, ate dinner and never left the house once. It’s a nice way
to spend the holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I haven’t been very active this year on this blog but I’ve been having
some computer issues. I have just gotten it back from the shop so hopefully I can
be more active as we start up another year ahead. Golden is getting ready to
have another set of eye surgeries …… she’s going to be fine … but she’s going
to have some downtime over the next few weeks. Maybe I can talk her into
another blog, you know once her eyesight returns. She has decorated her the
holiday in anticipation of not wanting to do it after her surgery. She spent the morning watching the Parade and her family will be getting together tomorrow for their celebration. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_y-ClS0y2K3rSarL440gLg8oF9b2Gk7ltJJorOH4IkqcCYarKZ6-QVUtNvgjrrIvW8OTJO-1Llol-vHEA05gyNDGJO7lv_KIaXnLpxUld3VNVO2kUS2lBf-FQp-7yirj41tAQkOuSgdhF65vI9Utj1IAL6k9qqFEZ5zVNCM0LrljHh6CT_fEIYeVviZF/s680/F_orfXCXMAIK6C8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="566" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_y-ClS0y2K3rSarL440gLg8oF9b2Gk7ltJJorOH4IkqcCYarKZ6-QVUtNvgjrrIvW8OTJO-1Llol-vHEA05gyNDGJO7lv_KIaXnLpxUld3VNVO2kUS2lBf-FQp-7yirj41tAQkOuSgdhF65vI9Utj1IAL6k9qqFEZ5zVNCM0LrljHh6CT_fEIYeVviZF/s320/F_orfXCXMAIK6C8.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have once again been neglecting my PTO and will either lose some or
take some over the next month …… which is nuts cause I have taken more time off
this year more than others but I guess I’m still ahead from 2020 the year that
no one did anything and taking time off seemed silly if I were just going to be
at the house anyway. I passed a pretty big milestone recently of 20 years at my job it's been quite a ride. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My Christmas TV calendar should be out any day now so be on the look out
for that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Have a wonderful thanksgiving holiday, be safe during your black Friday
shopping and WAR EAGLE!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy<o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-9724062639446162502023-10-01T08:44:00.001-07:002023-10-01T08:44:35.576-07:002023 Halloween TV/Movie Calendar<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><a class="ContentPasted0" style="word-break: break-word; color: inherit;">15 years …. For 15 years I have prepared this calendar and this note for your holiday enjoyment. I hope that at least once in those 15 years these efforts have made you smile, if you laughed out loud then that’s a bonus for me. 15 years is a long time to anything and while I realize that at some point all things must come to an end 2023 will not be that year. What’s in store for the future … well I don’t know but let’s face it we could all die in a fiery ball thrown from the Sun tomorrow so why stress about that right?! Kinda puts this calendar in perspective huh?! </a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">That being said, I was kind of excited about this one. No disrespect to the writers or the actors but I thought ok this is the year that the networks take everything at their disposal and use it since they won’t have fall programing in the way of all that holiday goodness. I thought this is the year that Garfield makes his Halloween come back, or that Nickelodeon dusts off those Alvin and the Chipmunks Trick or Treason, or the Smurfs and the Legend of Smurfy Hollow, Ichabod and Mr. Toad cartoons would fill the void left by all the striking humans. Long live Animation!!!! However that excitement was sadly short in life. While I’ve long since given up hope for the Peanuts to make it back to network TV I was hoping that others might rise and take their place. Heck at this point I’ll settle for Poohs’ Heffalump Halloween gracing my screen. Something …. Really anything … but it looks even worse than in past years and that makes for a very sad Marcy and is the reason for staring this on such a negative note. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">As you will see the calendar is dominated by a few specific networks, the OGs of this calendar if you will. My Halloween Ride or Die. Tho I warn you that I have been unable to find hardly any of the things that I used to find that routinely made the calendar’s of years past and new content well that’s apparently no longer a thing. Each network is associated with a specific streaming service that can air these things without messing with their precious lineups? So why waste the air waves and the advertising dollars. Has it finally happened, has Digital made this thing …. Obsolete ? Maybe so but let’s do it at least one more time cause well I am not ready to let this thing die, and while last year I said it was on life support this year I fear we might soon be calling hospice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">I admit I’m a little behind on this thing so that’s also not helping, but also seems to be the way my world works these days. I was going to work on it prior to my annual Dragon Con trip over Labor Day weekend but was too caught up in the insanity that was packing for a Con and told myself it can wait. Then when I got back my self said it was too early cause most of the networks weren’t ready to discuss their line ups and I had laundry to do, aka sleeping. Then boom next thing I know it’s the weekend before October and I’m like OH MY GAWD SELF WHAT?! … and now I’m back in College mode cramming for a last minute test I knew was coming but forgot all about. However, it is AU vs GA weekend and as a Tiger fan really … what else do I have to do on this lovely Saturday. WAR EAGLE! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">For those new to this party, and there are several of you, I will re-state the rules, for those veterans out there please forgive me for giving a short explanation and allow your attention to wander freely if you’d like. (thanks for that line Albus! – 10 pts for your house if you can tell me which Harry Potter book that’s paraphrased from…RIP Michael Gambon). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>The Rules: </b></p><ul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 24px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal;"><li style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span class="ContentPasted0">I live in the central time zone, the times on this calendar reflect that, adjust accordingly if you have traveled north of the Mason Dixie Line or spread your wings out West. Don’t call me cause you missed your “favorite” show/movie, that’s not my mess. Be a big girl or boy and crank up that DVR and find out when it comes on again cause odds are it will. </span></li><li style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span class="ContentPasted0">Time Zones are hard and sometimes I screw up the conversion from Eastern Time Zone to Central. See Note above for how I feel about you finding a mistake of time on the calendar. </span></li><li style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span class="ContentPasted0">Unless otherwise stated the times are PM, this calendar is also geared towards the after work hours of life cause well it’s about me and that’s when I can watch. My office seems to think it’s a distraction if I watch while at work, I mean I still do it but like they expect that. For those WFH peeps or stay at home moms feel free to check out these channels throughout the day for spooky goodness. </span></li><li style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span class="ContentPasted0">Lastly this calendar shows things <b class="ContentPasted0">I want to see</b>, movies and specials that take me back to my childhood or that just make me happy. Some are kid themed and some are more adult oriented. PLEASE be mindful of that before you sit down with your little and they can’t sleep cause Freddy might get them. That’s your mess not mine but Kudos to you for showing them a classic. Seriously don’t be that person and there’s always one. This is supposed to be for fun, if you make it not be for fun well you won’t get it next year. PS if you don’t get this one you don’t get the Christmas one either so be sure that’s what you need/want before firing off that e-mail. This isn’t the internet where you can say whatever you want without consequences. <span class="ContentPasted0"> </span> </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">If you are a digital user the easiest way is to saving it to your phone so you can check it on the fly, I mean who hasn’t gone to the bar keep at the local restaurant to ask them to switch from the game to Friday the 13<sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup> ? Just me …. Yeah, the crowd didn’t think it was a good idea either but I stand by the request. When I print it, and I do, I print it 11X17 but 8.5X11 is often good enough, especially this year with so much additional space on it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">Now I must warn you … these networks have some kind of dyslexia cause I have noticed that they will show the movies and their sequels sometimes in order sometimes but often not so much …. I’ve only listed one or the ones I want to try and catch in the idea that if you are watching you will also be alerted that the next show after Halloween Town is well Halloween Town 2.<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>In the case of Halloween or Friday the 13th or even Nightmare on Elm Street when there are more sequels than the Queen had jewels (RIP Liz) they really got dumb. If it’s a full night of say Halloween fun I just put Halloween Marathon and it’s up to you to find what you want to watch, that’s right you don’t get out of doing some work on this thing too. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">As always I’ve highlighted shows I hope to catch in purple but also wanted to alert you to a few items of note below, assuming that you are still with me and if so …. Wow congrats! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Freeform - 31 Nights of Halloween </b><span class="ContentPasted0">–<b class="ContentPasted0"> </b>They 100% understand the assignment. I will admit when they went from ABC Family to whatever they were then to Freeform I was nervous. However, I think they know what their core audience wants so for the entire Month of October (and for Christmas they do even more (Nov/Dec)) they show seasonal programing <b class="ContentPasted0">all month long</b>. That’s not to say that everything they air is worthy of your time, or that they aren’t re-airing things so much it feels like watching MTV on the weekend, but if you are looking for something the littles can watch while you scroll your phone grab a chair, get a blanket, and some popcorn and enjoy. This is my go-to when I can’t find anything else to watch that particular evening. They rarely disappoint, tho they got close by having a few nights of Twilight marathons which made me shake my head. Their addition of Cruella however allows me to overlook that. <span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Syfy - 31 Days of Halloween – </b><span class="ContentPasted0">SYFY also understands the assignment. If Freeform is where you go with your littles, SYFY is where you go after your littles trot off to bed. It’s truly<b class="ContentPasted0"> </b>the greatest place to watch Halloween fun this time of year cause they don’t hold back at all. They show classics and new movies and everything in between. They are having a love fest with Chucky this year but they are also highlighting their new TV show, which this calendar isn’t about. I’m also mad at SYFY for not giving me back Reggie the Vampire … but I pray that’s a casualty of the strike and will be coming soon cause I love that little Vampire! There is a little too much Mummy on their schedule for my taste but I guess it’s not about me.<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>They are also gracing us with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which is a fantastic book and the movie did it justice. Not something you’ll hear me say often. The thing that does sadden me is that SYFY hasn’t released the entire 31 days …. Come on SYFY get your *hit together. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>AMC - Fear Fest starts – </b><span class="ContentPasted0">AMC is where you go for Classic horror. I admit over the years I’ve had a love hate relationship with Fear Fest over the years cause at one point the Walking Dead took it over and I ranted that it’s not about the Walking Dead or the many spin offs and talk shows it created. However, when that was all winding down I was excited thinking ok let’s get back to business but I understand there was yet another spin off and thus it’s going to be in the way again. Sigh …. However their love to Halloween and the Exorcist makes me want to forgive them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Fox – The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror - </b><span class="ContentPasted0">The Simpson's Halloween special on Fox likely won’t air until Nov … which infuriates me but I’m going to tune in just like everyone else so they can put it where they darn well please. Not much to be told about this up coming season but it looks like the animators get to have some anime fun which should be interesting. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Disney Channel – Monstober - </b><span class="ContentPasted0">Halloween themed related movies and shows throughout the month and as the faithful to this calendar know ..that’s not what this is about but they do have a few “original movies” that might be worth your time or just fire up Disney Plus and watch Hocus Pocus. The fact they have not embraced Disney+ and re-aired some of their classics is something I will never understand. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Food Network - </b><span class="ContentPasted0">Once again Food Network jumped the Halloween gun by airing most of their programing in September, which totally makes sense. Halloween Baking Championship, Halloween Wars, Halloween Cookie Challenge and Outrageous Pumpkins have already started airing …. If you missed them …. Sorry … yell at them not me. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Nickelodeon</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> is showing A Really Haunted Loud House which sounds really cute but Nickelodeon is being all secretive about when it airs so good luck finding that one on your own. I think it will be worth the hunt. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Let’s talk Digital … since that fills me with all the rage … </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">I give up guys, Digital and Streaming has taken over, heck there is even a strike cause of it and instead of embracing what’s at their respective disposal network TV has decided ….. to …. Well .. buckle. Heck my nephews don’t even have cable anymore. So, they use the calendar to look up show names as opposed to setting DVRs. I knew it was coming and this calendar was my way of trying to keep it at bay, but it’s still sad to me that we are in fact here. While it’s fun having these shows at our fingertips it also takes away from the anticipation of it, at least to me. That I am sorry I can’t do anything that night cause whatever is on and I don’t wanna miss it moments are now a thing of the past. Heck even most network TV will be on Hulu within 24-48 hours, so go have dinner with that friend after work and don’t worry you can catch whatever online tomorrow, but you won’t cause something else will come up and in 2 years you’ll still be telling people “No I haven’t seen Hubie but its’ on my list” …. Which is one of the last original Halloween programs we were given. Lord protect Adam Sandler with all that you have. <span class="ContentPasted0"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">So for my digital folks, of which I admit I am now one, see the links below but I will admit that all of me believes if we calculated up the “subscriptions” for all these services we’d see that Cable had its advantages. <b class="ContentPasted0">PS</b> rumor has it AppleTV+ is going to have like a free week where people can log in and watch during both Halloween and Christmas …. Thank you Peanuts for that. While you are there che</span><span class="ContentPasted0">ck out the Crowded Room, it was and is still living rent free in my head. </span><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.halloweenmoviesontv.com/stream-halloween/" id="OWAa9843591-3085-fb4b-ab54-41f26a7f2ccc" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" rel="noopener" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(60, 97, 170);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://www.halloweenmoviesontv.com/stream-halloween/</span></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">In closing, assuming you are still with me and God only kno</span><span class="ContentPasted0">w why you would be, the intention of this calendar, is to get you and your loved ones to pause and spend some time making memories. Maybe carve a pumpkin while watching, create some fantastic Halloween Treats from your various Social Media sites while watching, or work on your costume – don’t forget the props - and RELAX <span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>and unwind from the busy work day, work week. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0">So sit back, scare yourself, and have a GREAT Halloween! It’s fall people enjoy it and feel free to share it far and wide ... but remember to tell them the rules! <span id="😄">😄 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did you even notice I was gone?! ….. I’ve packed a lot into those months but
that will have to wait for another post. </span><a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-year-frankly-same-blog.html" style="font-size: 10pt;">Late last year as I pondered the existence of this blog</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, for lack of a better word (diary might be a better fit), I
realized if I’m not going to use this thing as my “creative outlet” like
originally intended (and I’m still holding out hope that I might) I’ll use it
to spotlight organizations and groups that I’ve discovered over the years that
are making a huge difference in this world and could use a boost. Not saying a
blog posting by me here would boost anything, but at least I can say I gave it some
spotlight if only for a small moment in time and with the tiniest bulb out
there. What they do with it after that … well that’s on them!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The first one can be found here .. <b><a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2023/01/blog-with-purpose-triumph-over-tragedy.html">Blog with a purpose “Triumph Over Tragedy Foundation”</a></b> which exists to help families financially, who
have had loved ones that have been in traumatic accidents that have left them
either paralyzed or severely impaired. They support the family unit through
biblical principles from the initial impact of tragedy or illness to the
ongoing circumstances faced in the years to come. Thanks to <a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2019/08/bryan-white.html">Bryan White</a> for
putting them on my radar. Loyal readers know how I feel about him. IYKYK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This one is also one I found through my love of someone else but is
still a really great thing they are doing with their star power. I love Tom
Holland as Peter Parker …. He’s exactly who I pictured in my head as I read the
comics all those years ago. The super not confident when walking but super
confident flying through the air quality of how he portrays that character is
something special. I will admit tho my favorite Tom Holland outing to date has
been Cherry …. But the Crowded Room is a very close 2<sup>nd</sup> best at this
moment (tho if you log into Apple TV+ for Peter Parker... well just don't). I’ve watched those 3 episodes about 3 times each already and each time I
watch I catch something I missed before. The more I learn about this man the more I like about him. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">However, this blog isn’t really about
Tom Holland but it kind of is. See his family started <a href="https://www.thebrotherstrust.org/">The Brother’s Trust</a> as a
way to use his "star" power to do some good. They support charities that are doing great work but don’t get a lot of love.
They are helping the every day person and doing the best they can and the Brother’s
Trust exists to boost them up, give them a platform like no other to allow them
to continue to do good works in the world. One such organization is <a href="https://www.debra.org.uk/Listing/Category/about-us">DEBRA</a> a registered
UK charity that supports people affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa Also known as
EB.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Brother’s Trust also works with <a href="https://www.ebresearch.org/">Epidermolysis Bullosa ResearchPartnership</a> which is a USA Based non-profit organization dedicated to funding
research to treat and ultimately cure EB. What is EB you may be asking yourself
? Cause that’s what I asked myself the first time I heard about it. It’s
basically where the skin doesn’t function as skin. It tears and rips at the
slightest touch and often results in large gaping, painful wounds all over the body. This of course also affects the inside that the skin is supposed to protect. It's a pretty debilitating disease and pictures i'm sure don't do it justice but they are also very graphic. Look them up to see but just know that while it's hard to look at, imagine living with it. Especially when you realize there is no cure for this life limiting and often fatal condition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">However today the focus is going to be on DEBRA, which was established
in 1978 by Phyllis Hilton whose daughter, Debra, who suffered from EB. DEBRA is
a support group for people living with EB supporting patients, family members,
healthcare professionals and researchers as they work to live and fight EB.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Just before The Crowded Room press tour started a fundraiser was
established in which Graeme Souness, famous UK football star (soccer for those
of us on this side of the pond) is swimming a 21-mile stretch known as the
English Channel to raise awareness about EB, raise money for DEBRA, and support
those living and fighting EB daily. Tom has mentioned it in several of his interviews and that's how it ended up on my radar. They are over halfway to their goal of over
1,100,000 raised in support of this swim (his jersey number was 11). The more I
learn about this charity and EB I can support anyone who is supporting any
effort to make the effects of this disease less painful for those living with
it and supporting thos watching </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">people</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> living with it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So I encourage you to learn more about it … donate to the swim if you
can and support this effort links are below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/debraswim?fbclid=IwAR3DJV6eNLJntom62pnCOelcamhR5WazWT_wLs27sF8BrW3xEUelgEIeoE8" style="font-size: 10pt;">Donate directly to Graeme Souness and Andy Grist swim of the EnglishChannel</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.debra.org.uk/" style="font-size: 10pt;">Media coverage of the swim</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I hope you like these ..... I am enjoying writing them up cause I always learn something new about the organization I am highlighting so they will continue even if you don't enjoy them. If you know of an organization I should spotlight drop it in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/beaslma">@beaslma</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If you haven't watched The Crowded Room yet on Apple TV what are you waiting for !? Get on that now. Next episode comes out next Friday! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thank you, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-23865324700081503692023-02-05T17:57:00.002-08:002023-02-11T14:08:24.038-08:00Random Thoughts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFv4JqggUKgFLqmtreZ4P2yQfQFTTAtv2yPyTZhr3ba0ZndzfxsGnf4mw8Io0P39VOWCciGFpyM0yO_0i4IN9Y-sTvhXsczJI0MNNuOVIahbtK6oRjV9ojJHdUSPitLaxQriPUUa6muY6bO5jRFbHBSIIl_UgCSh2wisBnNx-Un5VXl7FBvTjhDwwPKA/s512/random-thoughts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFv4JqggUKgFLqmtreZ4P2yQfQFTTAtv2yPyTZhr3ba0ZndzfxsGnf4mw8Io0P39VOWCciGFpyM0yO_0i4IN9Y-sTvhXsczJI0MNNuOVIahbtK6oRjV9ojJHdUSPitLaxQriPUUa6muY6bO5jRFbHBSIIl_UgCSh2wisBnNx-Un5VXl7FBvTjhDwwPKA/s320/random-thoughts.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Over the years I’ve had thoughts for various blogs but nothing worthy
of a “full blog” in my opinion so I held them back until they pilled up into a
ball of randomness that would equal what I call a “full blog” posting. I’ve
called these posts a variety of things …. “Time for a catch up” ...</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">“Jumping onto my soap box”</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">… </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">“venting”
… “Random Thoughts” </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">… </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">“What
Grinds my Gears” </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">but most have their own
problems. They all basically allow me to talk about randomness that really
doesn’t connect together and get them out of my head. Time for a catch up
implies that you know the background of what I’m talking about, sometimes you
will sometimes you won’t if you’v been paying attention. Jumping on my soap box,
venting and what grinds my gears implies that what I’m talking about has
passion about a particular subject usually things that annoy me or frankly piss
me off. However in this particular instance that is not the case. I have
decided however to go with “Random Thoughts” from here on out… so here we go.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday …</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> A week ago dear readers I turned well …. Yeah I’m
gonna say it …. 44<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and let me tell you
lately I’ve been feeling all of those years. More on that in a moment. It was a
good birthday. Pretty low key, which is how I like em. The day before my work
peeps took me to lunch. On my actual birthday the boss and my department took
me to lunch (It was a Friday and many of my work peeps are doing the 10 hour
days so they can have Friday’s off thing to save “gas”) So I was treated to
lunch on two days and it was very nice. I didn’t necessarily have “time” for it
but it was nice to get out of the office and enjoy some fellowship, comradery,
and good food and a break from the insanity that was a Friday at work. That
night my parents and brother and Sister in Law took me to dinner. All I really
wanted for my birthday was a nice Steak. I got it and enjoyed the haties out of
it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong I enjoy
celebrating my birthday I just as I’m getting older don’t want the attention.
Not because of the number but because … well…. I don’t give the same energy
back to my friends on theirs and that makes me feel really shitty. I want to
give that energy but I’m just exhausted from giving my energy to so many
things. Yes I am well aware of how lame that sounds …. Just give it to me ok. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Doctors/Kidney Stone … </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Around Thanksgiving my back started
bothering me really bad. During “Covid” my General Practice doctor left his
practice and started a practice for 65 and older crowd focused on I guess Medicare/Medicaid
? AKA I was out cause as I stated </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">previously,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> I am well under that number. I
wasn’t “needing” a doctor and didn’t want to venture into the places where the
sick people might be mingling so I didn’t do anything about it. A few times I
masked up and went to an urgent care for a steroid shot or an antibiotic and
went on with my life. So when I called the old place that I used to go to with
my old GP and was like “I have done something to my back” the nice lady on the
phone basically said go fuck yourself. With people out with the Flu and
vacations being scheduled for holidays the earliest I could get in would be January.
I was like are you kidding me right now? She said no. I said bye. I suffered
through it taking an </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">anti-inflammatory</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> pills that I had from when I had hurt my
knee and some “over the counter” pain relievers to help me sleep but every morning
it was like I’d get out of bed and someone would shank me in the lower part of
my back in the exact same place every single day. At one point I even thought I
had Sciatica and would try to do the “</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">exercises</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">” I found online for it. FIRST
OFF WHY DOES EVERY BACK REMEDY START WITH GET YOUR ARSE ON THE FLOOR. If I
could get off said floor that would be different but cheese and rice man I can’t
do that. I’d try and I’d fail every time. There were a few times that I almost
threw up from the pain and several other times that I let the pain get the best
of me and had to clean up the results of that. I’ll spare you those details. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzWB9hVZWRW-CVRtykNyiDBi_ut_JAivSj6QaiBfjKRHWKJt6wwOPXQL62CEguL76Wjxh00w_B9t3_dzKBQwSxvsStocJSUb166LdIXP3n3qUQPsyX5rgZ-DQdKDGk1bzDh5nwH1Nr0fQBiohg5c8md0Wp1LbIKO8c0F8hBMvkmeyTdzK2hEI0LrWRg/s500/disappointed1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="500" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzWB9hVZWRW-CVRtykNyiDBi_ut_JAivSj6QaiBfjKRHWKJt6wwOPXQL62CEguL76Wjxh00w_B9t3_dzKBQwSxvsStocJSUb166LdIXP3n3qUQPsyX5rgZ-DQdKDGk1bzDh5nwH1Nr0fQBiohg5c8md0Wp1LbIKO8c0F8hBMvkmeyTdzK2hEI0LrWRg/s320/disappointed1.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Needless to say I finally had enough and right around Christmas/New
Years drug myself to the Urgent Care cause there was no way this was “just a
strained back” anymore. I started having dreams about the pain I was in. Like
full on technicolor dreams about going to the doctor getting an x-ray only to
discover a broken hip, or a broken back, or that I was in the middle of a heart
attack and the nightmare that followed. I had been resting it and babying it
and lathering up in the muscle spasm creams and sprays just to be able to walk
across a room. Jokes on me it was January before I could see anyone anyway.
Well played nurse … well played.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Urgent care discovered that I had a UTI and also took an x-ray
that upon review revealed that I also had what appeared to be a LARGE Kidney
Stone. They sent me to a Urologist. The first thing he did was take a urine
sample then send me for a CT where I had to lie on my back perfectly still for like
10 minutes. When I went to get up I almost passed out the tech did too. She
said I got super pale and made me immediately sit back down. I was glad it was
angry so that they could really see it in all it’s pissed off glory. Then…. I
went back to work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Two days later he called, during my staff meeting, to say I had a 7mm kidney
stone at the base of my kidney. It seemed logged in there and then he said the
thing that scared me more than anything else … I don’t know that this is going to
solve your back problem, but it needs to be dealt with. I almost burst into
tears but regrouped and said ok so now what. He was going to schedule my
surgery to have Non-Invasive Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) cause
he didn’t believe I’d be able to pass it. That long ass word is basically the
use of sound waves to crush the kidney stone into smaller pieces so that they
can more easily pass through the bladder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The immediate unknown hit me hard and frankly scared the shit out of
me. However, it got scheduled and I prepared myself for my first ever surgery
just after my 44<sup>th</sup> birthday (that’s right it would be on Feb 1<sup>st</sup>
… so we are now 4 months into this process). Sure, I had had my wisdom teeth
removed and done a colonoscopy before but nothing like this. It was going to be
an outpatient surgery at the hospital with IVs, a medical bracelet with my name
on it, and wires and stuff and I was to be put to sleep for it. I had a male
work friend who was trying to walk me through all of it cause apparently, he
does this like every 3-6 months. I told him I hope that will not be me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day of the surgery came the first thing
they did was a scan of my kidneys and lower abdomen I guess to make sure
nothing had moved. Then I told my father goodby and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was taken to the back, and they did a
pregnancy test, which was Negative of course. Then … I waited and watched some
TV, that is to say I flipped the channels. I made the mistake of leaving my
phone at home (one more thing to deal with I told myself) I missed it so during
that hour and a half or so. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizz_CumedQYv7eT8gRhAnyzN_LZLo4hhESTPerQR0M9gbpvUaXJH-08KpHR__suTVLjDEqLSdWEnE2o-ZyzIbKZ54q_N6yRAbC9UI3416CWnUqXJMCqiqI_Kq-vXd-dNu3T9Ofoav4PR_1cXWwU-KxP5oA7nUEtXTzxCbge6wa-xZnjgEHJqPa1zEkA/s397/ADTWO21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="397" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizz_CumedQYv7eT8gRhAnyzN_LZLo4hhESTPerQR0M9gbpvUaXJH-08KpHR__suTVLjDEqLSdWEnE2o-ZyzIbKZ54q_N6yRAbC9UI3416CWnUqXJMCqiqI_Kq-vXd-dNu3T9Ofoav4PR_1cXWwU-KxP5oA7nUEtXTzxCbge6wa-xZnjgEHJqPa1zEkA/s320/ADTWO21.png" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Next thing I know we are waiting on the anesthesiologist who eventually
showed up and spent about 10 minutes telling me how small my mouth/throat was and
that he couldn’t believe I don’t have Sleep Apnea and suggested I see a doctor
about it. I was like um… ok can we focus on the task at hand please. Next thing
I know they wheel me down the hall, I transition from the bed to this table
thing, I shift into position…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and then….
I woke up in recovery. Like I have zero recollection of anything in between. Which
I guess is a good thing. I woke up in the middle of my colonoscopy and I threw
up on my dentist during my wisdom teeth removal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My small throat was killing me …. The nurse lady kept asking if I needed
or wanted ice chips and I thought are you crazy my throat doesn’t work. I could
barely swallow. I asked if it worked, she said sure honey it did. I didn’t
believe her. I just wanted to go home. I stayed there a little while longer
while the nurses talked about Rihanna and if she had ever performed at the Super
Bowl before. One of the nurses was sure she had and the others were like nah
she hadn’t. Then they talked about last years Super Bowl halftime show naming
all the hip hop stars, and they couldn’t remember Mary J or Eminem. They kept
saying you know it had Snoop and Dr. Dre and those other people and when I yelled
out Mary J they were shocked I was even sitting there. Ice lady came over to
see if I was ok but one of the other nurses said she’s right Mary J was there and
proceeded to round out the guest list. Then the nurse that was sure Rihanna had
went to the all mighty google to confirm she was right only to lean she was thinking
of the Grammys and played Disturbia at near high volume for much longer than I feel
she should have.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That was my cue to leave. No offense to Rihanna but yeah it was time. I
got dressed and was wheeled out of the hospital to my dad’s car. He stopped to
pick up medicine at Wallgreens (that was not mine – he’d have to go back later
for that) and we finally made it home. Mom had asked earlier in the week what I
might want to eat and I requested plain white rice with a little butter. I
promptly thew that up and went to bed. I slept for the next 9 hours. Got up,
ate some saltines and took the only pain pill I’ve taken so far and then went
back to bed where I slept in 2 hour intervals that night. The next day was more
of the same. I’d wake up be groggy as hell, sit there for 15-20 minutes and
pass out for about 2 hours and start the cycle again. I guess around 6:30 that
night I finally got up and ate something real and stayed up the rest of the night
in hopes of a better night’s sleep that night. I was proud to report that my
back pain was nearly nonexistent unless I had a full bladder then it was more
of the same. However, I was considering it a win. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all of this I only missed 2 days of work.
The day for the surgery and the day after. I’m not sure if I’m proud of that or
not to be honest. I have spent the last few days trying to pass these things so
I can move on with my life to hopefully never do this again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Rest….</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I suck at rest. When I’m resting I’m thinking
about all the thousands of things I should be doing while resting which means
1. I’m not enjoying the rest … 2. I’m not really resting at all and 3. I’m also
not accomplishing the thousands of things I'm thinking about which amps me up
even more. Even on typical weekends I know there are things I should be doing
but I don’t do them and instead watch mind numbing TV or play games or scroll
on my phone kicking myself for not doing all the things instead of “wasting
time” when “wasting time” is what my body is telling my brain I need to be doing
but then my brain isn’t letting me enjoy it. Golden was quite proud I took 2
days for my surgery she wanted me to take more but I think also understood my
need to make sure things at work were handled. I did at least work from home
(more cause I had to than by my choice) so it wasn’t quite as grueling but
still. That being said on Monday I’m going to sell back 40 hours of Vacation to
my work. I’m not going to use it and I might as well get paid for it instead of
losing it. So what I am saying is I’m still learning what “rest” is and how to
use it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Music/Convert Tickets….</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Buy the freaking concert tickets or don’t.
Just stop with the bitching. Is it stupid expensive to go to a “concert” yes ….
Are these acts jumping through more hoops than ever to make shows even happen,
also yes. It’s not ticketmaster, it’s not scalpers, it’s the fact that when
they put an insane price on a pair of tickets (and we aren’t even talking a
decent pair of seats at this point) people are still buying them. Taylor Swift
fans weren’t bitching about the price they were bitching that they sold out
before they could get in to buy them at that stupid price. Beyonce fans were the
same way, bitching about the price as well as how quickly they sell out. Get the
tickets or don’t. Honestly I don’t care but be pissed off about the right
thing. Complain to the right people. The idea that Congress is going to possibly
take this up is just blowing my mind. Congress hasn’t and can’t solve a damn
thing but yeah let’s focus on this. Let a Beyonce tour not sell a ticket, let
an Ed Sherran sell out half a stadium, let Taylor not fill the seats and see if
those prices don’t come down but that’s not going to happen. There is always going to be someone perfectly happy to pay the insane price for your seat. When I saw Ed a
few years ago in TN I admit I overpaid for my seats. When I got there, I was damn
proud to have done so. Am I lining back up to see him on his new tour, frankly no. It’s a stadium tour, outside, in the south, during the summer. So many things
to factor in…the weather, the heat, the uncomfortableness of the day. I love the new album and I still
love the man but I’ve seen him do his thing in really great seats and now I’ll
just watch youtube clips. Let someone else have my seat. However, if I did
decide to jump back in the ring I’d pay the extra money for the decent seats. You
will too. Sop acting all high and mighty as you pull the credit card out of
your wallet. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Now if we are talking about Bryan White just take the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">wallet</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> do what you need to do and return it afterwards cause </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I'd</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> pay anything the man asks me to pay and </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I'd</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> even buy the boy a burger for his troubles. Have I told you guys how much I love that man ?! If not I should do that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAMKnPfpDDHBw33nB5-f7ZwuuO3AEh8EK6ezcgIiBTMoV-a50PpPTK5_EvKqOYZJE3u43OguZglCn0h45HEPLIiWbgxu3EHRzjfykEPk7mGuACbUCGOu7zDmbeJ-VE__3YMqjySoU7lRUfLHQiFU1_7VbSEOTM59u2gqBPPtC4rfuHHJ1MEadHMRHxg/s4000/IMG_1477.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAMKnPfpDDHBw33nB5-f7ZwuuO3AEh8EK6ezcgIiBTMoV-a50PpPTK5_EvKqOYZJE3u43OguZglCn0h45HEPLIiWbgxu3EHRzjfykEPk7mGuACbUCGOu7zDmbeJ-VE__3YMqjySoU7lRUfLHQiFU1_7VbSEOTM59u2gqBPPtC4rfuHHJ1MEadHMRHxg/s320/IMG_1477.JPG" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Lent is coming</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> ……. Which means giving things up …….. which for
me typically means social media and soda. Last year I did caffeine in general
which also took out tea and with my recent Kidney stone issues I think I’m going
to do that again. However Lent 2023 starts Feb. 22<sup>nd</sup> and ends April
8<sup>th</sup>. My nephew is getting married the first week of March so I’m not
planning to give up social media but I also don’t plan to be on it as much
either. I frankly look forward to this “break” and Lent is a good excuse for
it. However in the lead up to and the aftermath of the wedding I want to see
the messages, the pictures that are shared the fun surrounding it all and to do
that I need to be on all the social sites. Maybe I’ll find something else to
give up along with Caffeine but that’s another post. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UN2keWl3nM9lSDiQ8XKDoN0waAY-ojGOjwdqc1_3eDqi0BmAb6DPEZSZGX0wUFxDjtGlAlGQAWDARRN9qm2xgM50QUUWyujzcfs2BDaEX-EeZ6ZNEikS8a3nVFAglFi1gVUQlOX8UQG9PClKsH8Kwqu73rSdumMBf496aIGuVUsYJxIOs0_tmLAgbg/s1480/40-Things-for-Lent-List.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1480" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UN2keWl3nM9lSDiQ8XKDoN0waAY-ojGOjwdqc1_3eDqi0BmAb6DPEZSZGX0wUFxDjtGlAlGQAWDARRN9qm2xgM50QUUWyujzcfs2BDaEX-EeZ6ZNEikS8a3nVFAglFi1gVUQlOX8UQG9PClKsH8Kwqu73rSdumMBf496aIGuVUsYJxIOs0_tmLAgbg/w400-h216/40-Things-for-Lent-List.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well there you have it …. random conversations from me about very
random things I needed to get out of my head. Hope you enjoyed that. There were several other things I'm dying to talk about but those will come in another post. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy (@beaslma)<o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-47451355309043073952023-01-08T15:34:00.000-08:002023-01-08T15:34:31.408-08:00Blog with a purpose : Triumph Over Tragedy Foundation<p>A few weeks before Christmas I got an e-mail from someone
whom I consider one of my favorite people on this planet and I started looking
into the organization he was telling me about so that one day I could share it
with you all. Today is that day. Let me start by saying … I was going to say
friend, which I suppose he is but we don’t see one another on a consistent
basis, tho I wish that were true. I’d say I am his biggest fan but his wife
might tell me otherwise…. He calls me a “blessing” but he’s by far blessed me
more than I have him …. so I’m going with my favorite person.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKiQTAFXeUiVl7NbP-82xeCGijRTh8QCvFi0i_8GfgNZhj-CiLLQzJ7X7WVXc406kH9m7lX9uNtqtkeq8Xu8687LwYrqZq4NjraNVPD-X-U7Tp9hCcfgwkr_D4kjcApi0c0Y4zsZmdmFM_4JZupjkbLKNEiqm7Ivf82uUqDIcS6baBd6p3P_zLnBAZw/s2048/415315_274280369336574_324978148_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="2048" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKiQTAFXeUiVl7NbP-82xeCGijRTh8QCvFi0i_8GfgNZhj-CiLLQzJ7X7WVXc406kH9m7lX9uNtqtkeq8Xu8687LwYrqZq4NjraNVPD-X-U7Tp9hCcfgwkr_D4kjcApi0c0Y4zsZmdmFM_4JZupjkbLKNEiqm7Ivf82uUqDIcS6baBd6p3P_zLnBAZw/s320/415315_274280369336574_324978148_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This fella, who shall be named later I assure you, is a
member of an organization that is called “<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Triumph Over Tragedy Foundation” </span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which exists to help families
financially, who have had loved ones that have been in traumatic accidents that
have left them either paralyzed or severely impaired. They support the family unit
through biblical principles from the initial impact of tragedy or illness to
the ongoing circumstances faced in the years to come. Often organizations are
all in at the beginning and the individual comes home alone to “figure things
out.” This organization, based on what I’ve learned about them, is the
opposite. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
organization was born out of necessity, as most often are, when a young man of 9
named Wesley was playing with his friends and fell 20’ from a makeshift zip
line breaking his neck and becoming a quadriplegic. Wesley spent 6 months in
the hospital with his parents and older brother, Reggie, by his side. In the aftermath
of the tragedy, they thought of all the people who helped them during this
difficult time and Triumph Over Tragedy Foundation was born. They knew they had
to give back and a foundation that focused not only on the injured party but on
the entire family unit was the way to go. They focused not only on the physical
impairments but on the emotional scars that the entire family now faced as well
as financial assistance. From guilt, to anger, frustration, and down right
panic about what was to come, and depression it all needed to be addressed and attended
to in different ways. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their
assistance is broken down into 3 main categories: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The initial onset of illness or injury</li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Adapting to life after the illness or injury</li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->An escape from the stress caused by the illness
or injury</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That escape part is how my favorite person initially learned
about this organization. <a href="https://twitter.com/bryan_white">Bryan White</a>, who loyal readers to the Blog know is one
of <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2019/08/bryan-white.html">my heroes</a>, was invited to come and play music and participate in their
annual golf tournament in Conyers, Georgia several years ago and now sits on
the Advisory Board and is helping raise awareness about this organization. So
of course, he reached out to me, and several others around the holidays to talk about this organization. Then I looked into it and here we are. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQElBxtWdf8w5LT_3ONcObKGsEV56VqjmYZ5iXjL9dODwkeA65f4KXZKTDe4YQe1c3HA0tXn8FdKiCUb96p-vR4qjwONb8eihBXBB6nwjvQr5zPkAzcwyBpAH_hF3aS18auJl5R1jxeJ3FOVtDqBMo33zw6cP5QsBCMqwKOxAPkHO8q2tRqVY9UmlEw/s400/why31-400x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQElBxtWdf8w5LT_3ONcObKGsEV56VqjmYZ5iXjL9dODwkeA65f4KXZKTDe4YQe1c3HA0tXn8FdKiCUb96p-vR4qjwONb8eihBXBB6nwjvQr5zPkAzcwyBpAH_hF3aS18auJl5R1jxeJ3FOVtDqBMo33zw6cP5QsBCMqwKOxAPkHO8q2tRqVY9UmlEw/s320/why31-400x300.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">The easiest way to help is to <span style="color: #800180;"><b>earnestly pray</b></span> for the <b>Care
Team</b>, who make the initial touch with the family in the aftermath of the event,
the <b>grief counselors and pastors</b> who are trained to sit and listen and talk with
family members in their time of need, the <b>Adapt Team</b> who helps readjust the
houses for wheelchair accessibility, and of course <b>individual families forever
changed</b> by the event. By <b><span style="color: #800180;">raising awareness in the community about the foundation</span></b>
so that others might know of the organization and what they can provide. Most importantly
is by <b><span style="color: #800180;">giving to the foundation</span></b> so that they can continue their efforts and
provide financial support to the families as they adjust to their new normal. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Triumph
Over Tragedy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All
contributions are <b>tax deductible,</b> but most importantly
can </span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">impact a family for a lifetime.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkKV2K1r8hZd-1N2lKcjHpyQ0XgEv8mZtWbalhgYy3KkIo4QCcUHCyLja1tLyxYHCHxy9eAuYlUxosXMw9E2APS9VxbLpFx_GaI8xUSEzt4_OcTrZM3YJSH6K17ROPCUbtN8_RrkuU9651TgLgIeRJgOqg0E7pz4RtclczGWgURgMD5fkjOAMia7N6hQ/s600/418198_204994942931784_468558026_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkKV2K1r8hZd-1N2lKcjHpyQ0XgEv8mZtWbalhgYy3KkIo4QCcUHCyLja1tLyxYHCHxy9eAuYlUxosXMw9E2APS9VxbLpFx_GaI8xUSEzt4_OcTrZM3YJSH6K17ROPCUbtN8_RrkuU9651TgLgIeRJgOqg0E7pz4RtclczGWgURgMD5fkjOAMia7N6hQ/s320/418198_204994942931784_468558026_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">One of the planned initiatives for the coming years is the
building of an “event center” near Mansfield, Georgia (east of Atlanta). The
event center, a short drive from one of the best rehabilitation centers in the
Country, will serve as a retreat for those families and serve as a place to
hold fundraising events, weddings with wheelchair access and eventually a concert
venue to entertain guest and families in an effort to take their minds off of
their troubles if only for a few hours.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvWwcP5Gs7XfQ1lWvgRaOP__yO8GcD7d0NHrhP_CEruvaZ1Mon-OnpE2Cyeqx9c-l3NWINs1eYzxP100K74qdeuDKMgQTqTQH_cAJfGXjTNbe4Vbs2MnM0-WoLA9Zn5cktlMAvqfi-JJKD4MI2xq8WR99zk9zae9SboSDeMsCtN-6EWsZp6Zai5LlTw/s980/land-map.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="980" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvWwcP5Gs7XfQ1lWvgRaOP__yO8GcD7d0NHrhP_CEruvaZ1Mon-OnpE2Cyeqx9c-l3NWINs1eYzxP100K74qdeuDKMgQTqTQH_cAJfGXjTNbe4Vbs2MnM0-WoLA9Zn5cktlMAvqfi-JJKD4MI2xq8WR99zk9zae9SboSDeMsCtN-6EWsZp6Zai5LlTw/s320/land-map.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in learning more about this organization
or in donating to their cause, check out the <b>Triumph over Tragedy Foundation</b> website (links below).
From the stories on their facebook page, to what I’ve read about them they
really are restoring hope by restoring families and I’m happy Bryan put them on
my radar. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Links about the organization: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://givetotriumph.org/">https://givetotriumph.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TriumphOverTragedyFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/TriumphOverTragedyFoundation/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://givetotriumph.org/#donate">https://givetotriumph.org/#donate</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>I've decided that this blog does not exist in a vacuum and after some soul searching decided that while it's purpose is to provide me a creative outlet when I need it it's also going to exist to lift up organizations, groups, or individuals that are doing good in the world from time to time. So, consider this the first "blog with a purpose" and it was a great one to start out with. </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/beaslma">Marcy</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-68417847722340094842023-01-02T14:15:00.004-08:002023-01-02T14:19:44.203-08:00NEW YEAR ….. frankly same blog<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmVtKuF3vYEovr9wuejLceGhu8LTk9Kq1F_fZl09hcX9Du2dWO2PFG9IUQl1vPGOu23rex3vjigMptqHTWdxtZw44YI_yh9jfdkjsqQoHJJ7c9NjkQRyw5nRyxt3rIYg66F5FqYEvam2DsveYHj57TeCGTunkVJvYkmnJflDBOJWylxipTIIhsHZo7kg/s630/291217_happy_new_year.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="630" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmVtKuF3vYEovr9wuejLceGhu8LTk9Kq1F_fZl09hcX9Du2dWO2PFG9IUQl1vPGOu23rex3vjigMptqHTWdxtZw44YI_yh9jfdkjsqQoHJJ7c9NjkQRyw5nRyxt3rIYg66F5FqYEvam2DsveYHj57TeCGTunkVJvYkmnJflDBOJWylxipTIIhsHZo7kg/s320/291217_happy_new_year.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I've been thinking a lot about this blog since posting the other day. About its original purpose, to be a creative outlet when the world was sucking the very soul out of my body. A Place I could come to play, vent, challenge myself and well share some insights on the world. However, i'm not really using it for any of those things. I'm not really being creative, yes I'm writing things but am I being creative. No. I'm not challenging myself, nor encouraging others to do anything in particular to make their lives better or different. Frankly the world is scary enough without my useless 2 cents being involved. It is scary out there yo!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So has the focus on this blog shifted, does it need to. I don’t post
to just post. It’s usually I have something I want to say or something relevant
to what’s going on in the world at the moment. I’m never going to be a blog a
day kind of person. There are just too many things pulling on me that allow me
to have a goal like that. I might could keep it up for a week, I did a month
once, but for long-term posting I know that’s not a realistic goal. If I can’t
meet said goal I’m not going to set it. See I’ve watched Social Media “influencers”
and I use that term very very loosely set those kind of goals for themselves
and spend most of their time apologizing for not meeting said goals. An
Influencer I am not … tho if you want a chuckle the latest episode of the Simpsons
in which they basically mock the influencer is hilarious and one you should
flock to Disney+ to watch ASAP.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhU4xb6R1xi8XndkVTS3Rk9rKCxQVSgmTf42ixJzTvOJXIYaD9y9cG05pDgYdJXt10L9UYcDYIsrQrCEPFDaUw2NkAWgZB2fqNKpB5yc6DWpQad7jGhxaD7szON0U5VQGEbh5WcDvYfInBjsCkDOxyNoDRMe118weBoPBNh-bTLZ4Ad-BffDtwdoYIQ/s640/624738143-Makeida-138.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhU4xb6R1xi8XndkVTS3Rk9rKCxQVSgmTf42ixJzTvOJXIYaD9y9cG05pDgYdJXt10L9UYcDYIsrQrCEPFDaUw2NkAWgZB2fqNKpB5yc6DWpQad7jGhxaD7szON0U5VQGEbh5WcDvYfInBjsCkDOxyNoDRMe118weBoPBNh-bTLZ4Ad-BffDtwdoYIQ/s320/624738143-Makeida-138.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We also barely advertise the thing, we post on Twitter, and that’s
pretty much it. That’s right the platform that was on death’s door is still
kicking, likely Elon wishes it were doing better but if he’d leave it alone it
might be. I’ll post and tag Golden she will RT it and that’s where it dies. So,
the fact that we get any views at all is pretty impressive to me. Imagine what
would happen if we actually promoted the darn thing. However, then I’d feel like
I have to deliver. I kind of like the obscurity of this blog. No one really expects
anything so if I deliver at all I’ve already surpassed those expectations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">However,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I would like to get my creative side flowing again. I really
enjoyed writing the Haley and Michaels series (<a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2015/01/dreams-music-and-royal-family-fun_17.html">Part I</a>, <a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2015/02/connections-fiction-piece.html">Part II</a>, <a href="http://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2015/04/original-fiction-royal-welcome.html">Part III</a>, and
<a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-royal-musical-journey-conclusion.html">Part IV</a> can be found here) and let’s face it the Royal Family could use some attention.
Who knows maybe I’ll find a new muse and get to going or come up with an
original idea something that Hollywood can’t seem to do but maybe…just maybe I can.
I’d also like to get Golden back on this thing cause she’s way better at it
than I am, I mean did you see the words she strung together for <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2022/01/rip-betty-white.html">Betty White</a>
last year ? I still pull up Golden's blog about her <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2015/01/skull-fucked.html">eye surgery</a> when i need a good chuckle to get me through a crap day. PS she did eventually have the surgery and while it didn't go perfectly it went well and she does not in fact look like PAtchy the Fucking Pirate. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I don’t really make New Year’s
Resolutions anymore but those are things I’d like to accomplish for 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOXgHlMKsTiaZhXh4lVFFuXiNrli_BgL3HwtJz16SOmW_DaW0FMdogJeLhBlgY4noHMyIlefhbGjKN3cGpmgYGYNQoLGoZkc1XvVup7ewOt4kbl6hw2B7j7dk-WnsRaFC10qjQPr-ixdwuBNIyAm4W_t-z8rNDzZE6v06OGb8yfp9P4gL2AjOZeE_Iw/s1280/1641054052296207-1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOXgHlMKsTiaZhXh4lVFFuXiNrli_BgL3HwtJz16SOmW_DaW0FMdogJeLhBlgY4noHMyIlefhbGjKN3cGpmgYGYNQoLGoZkc1XvVup7ewOt4kbl6hw2B7j7dk-WnsRaFC10qjQPr-ixdwuBNIyAm4W_t-z8rNDzZE6v06OGb8yfp9P4gL2AjOZeE_Iw/s320/1641054052296207-1.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The point is … if you have stuck around this long, stick around a
little longer 2023 should be fun and It will be more fun if you all take the
Journey with us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUT9CcaclBsZMYHlMNVI0_oAMu0uuxL5ELK0AHmAuQr0WDMzAVCrXDjlT8B4ThxZreoB14y78thkvwug1Cx1nDv2bRP2O_dAWdzP_J12e6wd1HzcRNYSB8qR4uj99csmWOJYCMT1GOipeIQ2qvWkog5pQjtqRlVoeBqkOoQku3_Yl8x3RbIq9aVF43_w/s612/3-quotes_good-for-your-soul.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUT9CcaclBsZMYHlMNVI0_oAMu0uuxL5ELK0AHmAuQr0WDMzAVCrXDjlT8B4ThxZreoB14y78thkvwug1Cx1nDv2bRP2O_dAWdzP_J12e6wd1HzcRNYSB8qR4uj99csmWOJYCMT1GOipeIQ2qvWkog5pQjtqRlVoeBqkOoQku3_Yl8x3RbIq9aVF43_w/s320/3-quotes_good-for-your-soul.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy (<a href="https://twitter.com/beaslma">@beaslma</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Golden (<a href="https://twitter.com/theonlygolden">@Theonlygolden</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-32046832706364604922022-12-31T13:48:00.000-08:002022-12-31T13:48:02.487-08:002022 YEAR END REVIEW<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s New </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Eve … who knew. Not me at least not until someone sent
me a text telling me to be safe tonight, and I was like why where </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I am</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> going.
They said you know if you go anywhere for the holiday. I responded with you
mean tomorrow. They were like um…no tonight. People celebrate New </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> tonight, since it’s New </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Eve. I again responded with tomorrow. They wrote
back with a screen shot of the date, like my devices don’t also have that.
Turns out … guys they were right today is New </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Eve. The last day of 2022,
the last day of the year, tomorrow starts a </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">brand-new</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> chapter full of wonder,
excitement and pretty much the same shit that 2022 had but with a different date
at the end … if I’m being honest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">New </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> has just never been a thing I celebrate. I mean yeah sure it’s
an accomplishment to get from point A to point B I guess and not everyone got
to make that circle, heck I went to 2 funerals just this week alone, so I see
why people celebrate this “milestone” but I’ve just never been interested in
it. Even as a little Marcy I wasn’t concerned with staying up to watch the ball
drop. Seemed like a lot of fuss over not much and you spend the night wandering
around going from place to place finally landing somewhere to count backwards
from 10 then it’s over and everyone goes home or leaves to head to yet another
place. I’d rather stay home, sleep at a decent hour and just get up the next
day. I will admit I do like seeing how everyone chooses to usher out the current
year and welcome the new </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">one,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but it’s all become a bit much. Every single town
now has a thing. </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Hell,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> mine has a Moon Pie Drop. They take a LARGE Moon Pie
strap it to the side of a building downtown and at midnight lower it to the
ground </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">because</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> nothing says New Year like getting ready for Mardi Gras.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It's been another year of hard work and some appreciation for both Golden and I. I do wish she got more appreciation but there's very little I can do about that. I just completed my first year at the helm of the ship at my work, which has been a learning curve. I'm proud of what we got accomplished this year and know there's more we can do so that's the goal for 2023. Once gain </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I'm</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> gonna lose some of my vacation time, I hope that next year I do better about that. Golden and I are trying to come up with our next big trip (other than Dragon Con) </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">because</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> it's been a few years since we did that. I think the two of us just need something to look forward to if </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I am</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> being honest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Last year on this day it was 84 degrees and sunny, which was just
dumb. I rang in the new year in shorts and a t-shirt. Less than 24 hours later
it was raining and in the low 50s. tell me the south isn’t always sick for no
reason and I’ll explain all that again. It’s been ridiculously cold the last
week or so which was nice to have a Christmas holiday where I could wear my
Christmas sweaters without sweating through them for a change. Today it’s 67,
cloudy and wanting to rain. We had a wicked storm blow through on Friday afternoon
and it was supposed to hold over until </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">today,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> but it was moving faster than originally
thought and we are left with a dreary, cloudy, warm day instead. Tomorrow it’s
supposed to be in the high 70’s low 80’s. So basically, back to normal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I’ve spent the majority of my “time off” for the holidays (Christmas
and now New </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">) cleaning. Throwing things away, purging my life of the
things I don’t “need” I have 5 bags of things to take</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">…. somewhere</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. It’s mostly clothing
that I can’t or don’t wear, some of which still have the tags on them. I’m </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">really</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> bad about that, it’s the downside of online shopping it looks better on the
screen than in my house.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">While I wasn’t looking this blog turned 8 years old. Since 2014 we
have had 261 entries that have been viewed 27,526 times by ….. someone. We
average about 29 post a year, but I credit most of that to the first two years when
I did blog challenges and then in </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">2019,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> I did kind of a resurgence of the blog
in an effort to bring it back to life. I will admit that with this blog I’ve
not been trying to set the world on fire, teach anyone anything in particular,
or even study specific subjects for a greater understanding of a higher
universe but I have tried to stay consistent in my posting. Here lately it’s
felt more like a journal or diary than an actual blog with a purpose or
passion. Like this isn’t a </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">lifestyle</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> blog, or a blog trying to sell my various
projects or causes, or a blog that is used to promote anything or generate likes
and collaboration with companies. It’s just me, my little HP laptop that’s
still kicking (knock on wood), and sometimes </span><a href="https://twitter.com/theonlygolden" style="font-size: 10pt;">Golden</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> just sharing various thoughts
with people who might be interested. It tuns out that while most of our views come
from the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">US,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> we also get a large portion from Russia and Ukraine (haven’t those
people suffered enough) with France and Germany rounding out our top 5 countries.
Sorry Canada you just missed the top 5.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I did just learn that our blog with the most views has changed … it
used to be the “<a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2015/04/original-fiction-royal-welcome.html">Royal Welcome</a>” my Real Person fiction about Haley and Michaels working
with the Royal Family. However ironically the post now with the most views of
314 is “<a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2019/04/he-has-risen.html">He is Risen</a>” posted in April 2019 … I just re read it and it’s nothing to
special so I’m not sure why so many have felt the need to click on that particular
one but it’s gonna be hard to pass that many views. But I’ll do my best.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Have a great 2023 and a safe New Year’s Eve, which is apparently tonight </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">in case</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> you didn't know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy (<a href="https://twitter.com/beaslma">@beaslma</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-83938190083274694092022-11-30T16:02:00.001-08:002022-11-30T16:02:26.182-08:002022 Christmas TV Movie Calendar<p> <span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Good news fellow lovers of random TV specials, the Crimmus Calendar (that’s how my bestie spells it and now I it looks weird spelling it the “right” way), unlike the Halloween calendar, was much easier tho Hallmark, Freeform, and Lifetime have done their best to overtake the darn thing once again this year. I would however argue that if you start showing Christmas shows in April on a loop 24/7 then maybe you don’t have much else to offer and might wanna review your strategy – just saying.</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0" style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I admit … This calendar has been burning a hole in my file structure for about a week, but since I didn’t put anything on it for the week of Thanksgiving I decided to hold it. I also didn’t want it getting lost in the shuffle that is yall’s inbox during the holiday. Then like 3 weeks in people are like did I not get your calendar and they have missed out on so much awesomeness. I mean that’s not my fault, I know that but still I’ll feel bad for you and your disorganized self. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As many of you may know GAC is also trying to get into the holiday specials mix, Great American Country for those that don’t know, but I don’t have that channel. As I’ve said for the last several years if I don’t have it … it won’t appear on this calendar. I’m selfish that way. Plus, I don’t wanna be all political but if Candace Cameron Bure is how you plan out your TV watching time then just turn the thing off and read a book. Seriously. DJ is great but yeah calm down it’s just a Crimmus movie you aren’t saving the world. <span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before we dive in … I think it’s important to repeat the rules, cause without rules there is chaos and we can’t have that with Santa in the air and all. . . . <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><ul style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><li><b>NO E-MAILS about taking Christ out of Christmas</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, it is there you all know it just stop being difficult..... I mean honestly, it’s just a really long word and using X-Mas allows for more shows on the already full calendar. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><ul><li><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks for your understanding. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For those that don’t understand I’ll be glad to remove you from the list just let me know. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul><li><b>I live in the central time zone, the times on this calendar reflect that, adjust accordingly</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><ul><li><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That said unless otherwise stated the times are PM<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul><li><b>Very special episodes need not apply. </b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This calendar does not focus on established show “Christmas special episodes” so watch out for those … Psych for instance has a great one and Friends had some touching Christmas specials, however, that’s not what we are here for.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b>NASFL – Not all is safe for Littles …</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This calendar contains shows I want to see, some are new, some are classics, and some are just downright dumb but I like em so back off! There is a mixture of adult themed shows/movies and kid themed shows/movies cause I’m just a kid at heart. PLEASE be mindful of what is on before you sit the kids down with popcorn to watch.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><ul><li><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t call me cause your little one watched some holiday movie on Lifetime or and now has “questions”. . . . that’s your mess not mine. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul><li><b>Late Hour Focus, but hour round fun. </b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For you work from home people, stay at home mom’s, or employers who have access to good wifi …. <span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>they run these specials all day long, and while my calendar focuses on the after-work hour times, since that is when I can watch, fire it up as background noise for that meeting that you are totes paying attention to. Then you can thank me later. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><ul><ol><li><b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s right it’s all about me! <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></b></li></ol></ul></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It seems everyone has a gimmick or a brand they are selling, <b><i class="ContentPasted0">It’s a Wonderful Lifetime</i></b>, on well … Lifetime, <b><i class="ContentPasted0">25 days of Christmas</i></b> on Freeform, <b><i class="ContentPasted0">Miracles of Christmas</i></b> from Hallmark Movies and Mystery (which was a missed opportunity for them for sure) <b><i class="ContentPasted0">Best Christmas Ever</i></b> from AMC (which is debatable but their love of Claymation makes up for it) and so on. Marketing departments have been working overtime for their various channels, but it kept them employed so … good for them. I do question a network that does 25 days of anything but when you really study their programing realize that they are really replaying the same 10 movies over and over and I wonder if their time couldn’t be better spent. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Especially when you look at their line ups in their various Aps and see that there is so much more out there than a Burnt out executive who leaves the big city to help her parents shut down the ranch she grew up on but shunned and left for bigger things only to find the love of her life tending to {insert your animal here} with a plan to save the ranch but only if she agreed to leave the hustle and bustle of the big city to pick up where her aging parents have left off and agree to marry him on the spot or the deal is off. Or you know … something of that nature, over and over again. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, with that thought in mind, the focus of this calendar is on NEW specials and returning movies I want to see cause I mean frankly there is not enough paper and ink in the printers around the world to include them all. Trust me, I’ve tried. I meant if you haven’t seen a Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in their hey day trying to get to Grandmas’ house have you even lived?! PS it only comes on a few times and for some reason at the arse crack of dawn each and every time. Don’t ask me why …. just be happy it’s still on the air. I mean they have to be what in their late 30’s or something by now? I also admit that Die Hard didn’t make the cut again this year, which is not my fault. I just can’t find that it’s airing anytime in the next 25 days. I tried Guys I promise! <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Few suggestions for your holiday viewing: <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><ul style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><li><b>Ralphie Love !!!!!</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Both TBS and TNT are showing 24 hours of a Christmas Story starting Christmas Eve … and you should also check out the <b class="ContentPasted0">A Christmas Story Christmas</b> on HBO if you have it cause it’s everything little Marcy wanted in life!<span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>It pulls at all the same heart strings that the original pulls on …. once in a while a little too hard. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b>The Star –</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> appears several times on Freeform this year. I admit I didn’t give this special the notice it deserved when it first came on in 2017. I fell in love with it hard a few years ago and it’s now must see TV for me every year. </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Make</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> sure you check it out. Your kiddos will LOVE this animated special and they just might learn something too. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b>A New Orleans Noel on Lifetime</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is well a NEW Christmas movie that is set in New Orleans and bring Rudi back to our television screens and I’m all for anything that does that. If it also brings Patti LaBelle then that’s just a bonus. The Big Easy at Crimmus what could be more fun !? <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b>Lifetime:</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> speaking of Lifetime they are working to end the reign of Hallmark as the place for Holiday fun by airing NEW movies </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EVERY</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 7 central. Sure they all have a similar pattern to them but that didn’t bother you when Hallmark did it, so tune in cause did I mention they are NEW ! <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CNN All Star Tribute at 7 on CNN Dec. 11<sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup></span></b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have talked about this before … it’s an annual special that highlights some pretty amazing things </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">being</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> done around this planet to try and make it a better place. It’s a very uplifting night and reminds you that maybe .. just maybe the world has some good left in it. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b>Claymation Love –</b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Both AMC and Freeform are giving us the Claymation love this year and I’m 100% for it. Now if they can just bring </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">back</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the Claymation Christmas I will be the happiest Marcy ever! Bring the kiddos to the TV, make them watch it and explain just how much effort it took to bring that awesome to the screen. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b>Beauty and the Beast LIVE – will air on ABC Dec. 15<sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup> </b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.. and god love them no matter how bad these have been over the years they keep trying. Eventually they will get </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">one</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of these right maybe it will be this one. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hanukkah on Rye airs on Hallmark on the 18<sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup></span></b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> … which is the only Hanukkah movie on my calendar and it makes me sad that is a thing. I mean 8 Crazy Nights should air yearly but alas I can’t find it. <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another programing note …. unlike Halloween where they are just all over the map with the order, Christmas specials tend to keep the flow going, so if they were say … showing The Santa Clause, The Santa Clause 2 and the Santa Clause 3 back to back on the same channel I didn’t list all 3 cause well A. Space is limited, B. If you want to watch one you’ll likely watch them from the beginning and C did you not read about having limited space to make this happen!? I mean if you don’t have an afternoon to devote to it then well just walk away, be a quitter … see if I care. I do… I care a lot … cause Tenderheart tells me I need to. That’s right I worked a Care Bears reference into this year’s calendar and if that’s not a Win… then what is. *does Happy Dance in my chair!*<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital Media is taking over and I’m no longer going to fight it … No, before you get all excited, I’m also not dropping it into my calendar, but I do admit that it is the week of Thanksgiving and I have watched A Christmas Story Christmas at least 3 times and loved every single second of it each and everytime I watched it. So, if you are interested in what’s happening in your various streaming services check out the links below. I admit I am proud to see all the original programing that’s dropping on the various streaming services and sad that networks don’t have enough faith in them to show them “offline.” <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a class="ContentPasted0" href="https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/new-christmas-movies-streaming/#:~:text=New%20Christmas%20Movies%20to%20Stream%3A%20A%20Holiday%202020,Journey%20Available%20now%20on%20Netflix%20...%20More%20items" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Christmas Movies to Stream: A Holiday 2020 Streaming Guide | Den of Geek</span></a><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a class="ContentPasted0" href="https://people.com/tv/new-christmas-movies-2022/" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Christmas Movies in 2022 and Where to Watch Them (people.com)</span></a><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a class="ContentPasted0" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/11/13/best-christmas-movies-stream-holiday-season/8315347001/" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">90+ Christmas movies to stream for holidays on Netflix, Hulu, more (usatoday.com)</span></a><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a class="ContentPasted0" href="https://thestreamable.com/news/best-christmas-movies-streaming-guide" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Where to Stream the Best Christmas Movies of All Time (2022) – The Streamable</span></a><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So go get your digital on and you won’t hear from me how the medium is killing the holiday special for cable providers and how Apple TV has already claimed Charlie Brown as theirs and how you can’t watch Mickey’s Christmas Carol without a Disney+ account or how Ralphie’s new special is only on HBO MAX <span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>but yeah you go ahead stream to your hearts content and sit back and enjoy. It’s fine …. No really … go ahead it’s fine. Seriously why are you still reading this … go watch your programming … and Merry Christmas have a wonderful New Year and here’s to an even better 2023 for us all! <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_WFaybilZlY24E2_HEw-mbm_kv0iDaJc2mOiEaKxU6q8c8IcB7NfKdeQdLqt6kQ8Br04w3ASRjU88RmP0vuGosvjabwMjPbiMBjjieH13R7S0NgyYG3vLdBNqhKAqK2QY6FG3ToMCRoWt8H5j7gig0FwiWz1GVvNRnJfjrAGQXjwdhLgBBAGfXZx5Tg/s5100/2022%20Christmas%20TV%20Calendar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="5100" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_WFaybilZlY24E2_HEw-mbm_kv0iDaJc2mOiEaKxU6q8c8IcB7NfKdeQdLqt6kQ8Br04w3ASRjU88RmP0vuGosvjabwMjPbiMBjjieH13R7S0NgyYG3vLdBNqhKAqK2QY6FG3ToMCRoWt8H5j7gig0FwiWz1GVvNRnJfjrAGQXjwdhLgBBAGfXZx5Tg/w640-h414/2022%20Christmas%20TV%20Calendar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have a wonderful and safe holiday season so we can do this again next year! <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you can't save the image above hit me up on twitter @beaslma and i'll send you the PDF/JPEG combo. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcy <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-61329684935891945022022-11-26T11:12:00.005-08:002022-11-26T11:17:43.310-08:00An Open Letter to Coach Caddy<div style="text-align: left;">I write this the morning of the 2022 Iron Bowl, but it has been rattling around in my head for days, maybe even weeks. This is not a call for Auburn to give this man the team outright, tho I admit I'd love to see that happen, it is simply a letter from one Auburn Alumni to another. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dear Mr. Williams, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifw53g3OD0ylUR5l4ZsNmmKf8zv9tozgWxOPX0-r_sflvE5BNOIB4a6F2DmQ-PsnRFUxfjpmlUvzP2nnFSv1Q2bVkNr89g1DWcZLq7P_6yQdtdk0brmjBEeC9Kr77OhCjAqQGxWm8wIRhtwI6VkTyKvofkroZMDmM9UuXyurH6uHiz6D3yAo5ENc-PQw/s412/resize.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifw53g3OD0ylUR5l4ZsNmmKf8zv9tozgWxOPX0-r_sflvE5BNOIB4a6F2DmQ-PsnRFUxfjpmlUvzP2nnFSv1Q2bVkNr89g1DWcZLq7P_6yQdtdk0brmjBEeC9Kr77OhCjAqQGxWm8wIRhtwI6VkTyKvofkroZMDmM9UuXyurH6uHiz6D3yAo5ENc-PQw/s320/resize.jpg" width="233" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thank you.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">While that doesn’t seem like enough that’s really what it boils down
to, thank you. Thank you for reminding the Auburn Family what it means to be a
family. Thank you for giving this fan base something to rally around. Thank you
for showing this team what they are capable of then helping them unlock it on
the field. Thank you for salvaging a season that frankly didn’t have a lot
going for it. Thank you for showing the character and heart that an Auburn
Alumni has 24/7. Thank you for showing kids that there is another way and that you can in fact break and rebuild the mold at the same time. Thank you for not giving up on these boys. Thank you for not
phoning it in the last few games but going out there and fighting for every
second of every game since you took the helm of the ship. Thank you for making
this fun again. Thank you for letting passion overtake polished. Thank you for speaking from your heart not a playbook handed to you from the University. Thank you for making mistakes and learning from them. Thank you
for being the living embodiment of the Auburn Creed. Thank you for all the memories I have of watching you run that ball down the field in such amazing ways. Thank you for understanding TEAM vs ME. Thank you for completing your degree and showing the true character of an Auburn Man. Thank you for teaching kids everywhere that you could do both, have a career and an education. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1mI6P1wYLhZxwEdku_uLLAX412oPP5VIFdAmd_sYTX7CDwjEFNS8cc6xJLCFB6AX5Z0aQytq7hK3XE1_mmYtreLM6Xt-K0TtTxHcomoiUEAZihuQtG4ixQnmJYhBA0BOMukpyvPwmyiTb_QkKKnmMppULkNlNp8D1ne0QSQkYZ8adQVBwtEPYbjkIg/s409/330px-CarnellWilliams-AU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="330" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1mI6P1wYLhZxwEdku_uLLAX412oPP5VIFdAmd_sYTX7CDwjEFNS8cc6xJLCFB6AX5Z0aQytq7hK3XE1_mmYtreLM6Xt-K0TtTxHcomoiUEAZihuQtG4ixQnmJYhBA0BOMukpyvPwmyiTb_QkKKnmMppULkNlNp8D1ne0QSQkYZ8adQVBwtEPYbjkIg/w240-h298/330px-CarnellWilliams-AU.jpg" width="240" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ3hQxEyZGts71bxMmRifrnILzKXkPPe4teurjrtrBhu6DmtKkJsh6s-DjCY9abiFbnYZ2z9KaREPAawlEJcibWxs75M_L_fsEJ84RNLWPCHY5NbEDMUgXgbJ4biiqvkCrbO4H2IQdIrE49JqAvfmhnSH6IeOZWfcBx4fVLdf81uNjtQvsoOvTfGNtNg/s300/CHICAGO-BEARS-V-TAMPA-BAY-BUCCANEERS_12.jpg" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ3hQxEyZGts71bxMmRifrnILzKXkPPe4teurjrtrBhu6DmtKkJsh6s-DjCY9abiFbnYZ2z9KaREPAawlEJcibWxs75M_L_fsEJ84RNLWPCHY5NbEDMUgXgbJ4biiqvkCrbO4H2IQdIrE49JqAvfmhnSH6IeOZWfcBx4fVLdf81uNjtQvsoOvTfGNtNg/s1600/CHICAGO-BEARS-V-TAMPA-BAY-BUCCANEERS_12.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Let’s go out and do it one more time and let the momentum that you have
built carry on for years to come cause the most important thing you have taught
us this year is that when the fan base is behind these Tigers, they can do AUsome things. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mostly, thank you for that, may it be a lesson we always remember. <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCWuZiFnHUZTK1ScMudUk0h2EgR_utWY6ll1Tv40fIUDswNmZdrD7d37F2CDlBzrvKcTXnS-gzKb4SX4_OHw1w_grEwPo0YQMH5PLC8emRE6_jwPMsyx-Hv7MhkxwbUIDqBR31BrM0uUsITIvER22suiAWAb352x4Cb9X3COQxb7exLnux1KhT1957Q/s1200/8987534.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCWuZiFnHUZTK1ScMudUk0h2EgR_utWY6ll1Tv40fIUDswNmZdrD7d37F2CDlBzrvKcTXnS-gzKb4SX4_OHw1w_grEwPo0YQMH5PLC8emRE6_jwPMsyx-Hv7MhkxwbUIDqBR31BrM0uUsITIvER22suiAWAb352x4Cb9X3COQxb7exLnux1KhT1957Q/s320/8987534.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Mj0T1MK6vMMVl56GU_V1nfMqL47w4vQ_O3gT8TpsHhkATzSXjMpTISjhbp7ZRjSp4M04VHjf5DkVe9DidevshXfeatgXup7STGzg4msrGysOsaMaR8SbBzCTNbLUm2KKHSdKTiq7xrDkhymDqdoQmmw4b66GsRHUGo3kbqV52gU2LfrJL4i8pxIHBA/s900/war-eagle-jc-findley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="900" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Mj0T1MK6vMMVl56GU_V1nfMqL47w4vQ_O3gT8TpsHhkATzSXjMpTISjhbp7ZRjSp4M04VHjf5DkVe9DidevshXfeatgXup7STGzg4msrGysOsaMaR8SbBzCTNbLUm2KKHSdKTiq7xrDkhymDqdoQmmw4b66GsRHUGo3kbqV52gU2LfrJL4i8pxIHBA/s320/war-eagle-jc-findley.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy </span></div></div>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-49288455599308760552022-10-08T10:26:00.000-07:002022-10-08T10:26:02.419-07:00Halloween Movies - Specifically Hocus Pocus<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s October … which in my head means it’s finally officially FALL! I
know fall has an official start date and I frankly don’t know when it is but
for me it’s always first of October when I want to throw the windows up, turn
off the AC, settle into the couch and watch some scary movies. Then I remember I
live in the South and it’s still so fracking hot. So I shut the windows, crank
the AC back up, pop some popcorn, settle into the couch and watch some scary
movies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Golden is trying to do 31 days of Halloween watching at least one Halloween
themed show/movie a day for the entire month. Her recent eye surgery will make
that a little more difficult but she will do her best to catch up I’m sure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So far this month I’ve watched Thirteen Ghosts, Trick R Treat, Friday
the 13</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, Halloween (the original), Hubie Halloween, Halloween 4 The
Curse of Michael Myers, Beetlejuice, and Ghostbusters from 2018. I am also
counting Hocus Pocus 2 in there cause well I watched that Sep 30</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">,
again on Oct 2</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> and will likely watch it one more time this week. It
is that good people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When the original Hocus Pocus came out I was in the 8</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
grade. I watched it like everyone else, even enjoyed it but was kind of
underwhelmed by it. There were pieces and parts that I was like wait isn’t this
a kids movie ? Did they really just say that?! Little moments like that ripped
me out of the fantasy world and I never really got to run a mock with it (ha!
Get it?). I still watch it every year cause I mean you have to, I think it’s an
amendment in Walt’s will or something, but it was always more I’d put on while I
cleaned or wrote a blog, worked, or played on my phone. It was on, I was in the
room, but I guess I wouldn’t say I’m always really watching it. There were
pieces I didn’t want to miss and would look up from whatever I’m doing to watch.
The first time the sisters take flight on their new “booms” always makes me
chuckle, when they wake up Billy for the first time and the butterflies/moths fly
out of his mouth. When Binx transforms at the end (Spoiler alert) and reunites
with his sister. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I found the Dani character
annoying, I found Max to be a pushover and Allison always reminded me of someone
I couldn’t quite put my finger on which I found annoying.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A few months ago I was walking through a bookstore and came across a
book that had both stories in it. The original and the new upcoming Hocus Pocus
and I was like I’m in. I bought it and immediately took it home to start
reading. I skipped right to the middle of the book for the 2</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> story
and dove in. To say I was underwhelmed was a huge misstatement. I was down
right pissed off. If that’s what I have to look forward to I’m not going to see
it. Then the news articles started coming out and the anti Disney people
started making their voices louder and I was like well damn now I have to go
watch if only to support the darn thing. You guys know me …. Anything that’s original
Halloween content I’ll happily sit in front of for hours, that’s how starved I
am for that kind of thing. Then it got a Disney+ only release and I was like oh
that’s not good. So, a friend of mine decided she was going to set up her big
out door screen and we could all watch it as a group. I was like ok I’m in but didn’t
have high hopes for the movie.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I was intrigued that most of the cast came back for the sequel. That hardly
ever happens after such a long gap, I mean 29 years is a long time to step back
into a role. For those of you that haven’t seen it yet I’ll not give too much
away here cause I mean it really is a good stand alone movie that if you know
the original you laugh a little harder at some of jokes. I really would suggest
watching them both but if you only make time to watch one this year I’d borrow
someone’s Disney+ account and make it the sequel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Here's the plot for those that only read the news and think they know
what this movie is about. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A young lady named Becca is turning 16, and her birthday happens to be
on Halloween. She and 2 friends Izzy and usually Cassie, have a “birthday”
ritual where they go to a place in the woods light a candle and “chant” but
really they are just some teens that are laughing and having a good time before
going back to one of the houses for a movie marathon and snacks. The entire
town seems to know about this ritual. Turns out this year the candle they are
given is well the famous “Black Flame Candle” and it wakes up the Sanderson
Sisters once again. The rest of the movie is them trying to “save the town.” In
the middle of all this drama Becca and Izzy have grown apart from Cassie and
are starting to drift into two different friend groups and teenage drama takes center
stage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There are several side stories and mishaps that tied the story together
for me but I’ll not bore you with those right now. I will just say sit back,
snuggle on the couch get some popcorn and throw everything out of your head and
just enjoy the movie for what it is. A really good Halloween movie. You will
thank me for that!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Happy October … what have you been watching !?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-68644656937753573192022-09-30T04:30:00.019-07:002022-09-30T04:30:00.176-07:002022 Halloween TV Movie Calendar <p>A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked, now that the boys (aka
nephews) are in college are you going to stop the TV/Movie calendars ? I was
immediately like no, it’s not about them I enjoy it too. However, I admit that
this year’s calendar was way harder than in years past and if Christmas is the
same well it might be time to hang up my calendar for good. As you will see the
calendar is dominated by a few specific networks. Now I know there’s more to
life than Freeform, AMC, and SYFY and yet here we are. I have been unable to
find hardly any of the things that I used to find that routinely made the calendar’s
of years past. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Where’s my network TV? Calendars filled with Food Network (More on
their insanity in a few), Cartoon Network, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox breaking
their “regularly scheduled programs” for “specials” or “movies” from their
respective studios that fit the season. Alas that is either no more or they
just aren’t announcing anything yet instead focusing on their regular programing
as their new seasons start kicking off. I guess they don’t care about my
calendar as much as I do or those of you that have reached out to me in mid-September
to ask when it’s coming. Soon was my reply…soon. So many of the sites I used to
use to populate this calendar are no longer active, or like me only show the 3
mentioned above, heck one just recreated the Freeform calendar and said ..eh
good enough. Are my sources done with this process? Are they just unable to
find anything so they put out what they could hoping we’d understand? Are the
networks moving away from the fall specials, I mean each is associated with a specific
streaming service that can air these things without messing with their precious
lineups? So why waste the air waves and the advertising dollars. Has it finally
happened, has Digital made this thing …. Obsolete ? Maybe so but let’s do it at
least one more time cause well I am not ready to let this thing die, tho I
admit it might be on life support.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You may notice that I’m sending this out on the 30<sup>th</sup> of
September which is of course not October 1<sup>st</sup>. I did that for a
number of reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m going to a friend’s house Friday night to
watch Hocus Pocus 2 and wanted this to be done before so I didn’t have to worry
or think about it could instead focus on the black flame. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It allows people to use their respective
office printers to print the thing as they move into the weekend, your IT
people will thank me for that one.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s football season down South and I didn’t
want this to get lost in the shuffle of traveling to see your respective teams
play. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I wanted you all to have it before the weekend
so as to not miss the first weekend of fun with your family and friends, which
is what this thing is all about anyway and why I continue to do it<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s my calendar and I’ll release it when I
darn well please. Thank you very much. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For those new to this party, and there are several of you, I will re-state
the rules, for those veterans out there please forgive me for giving a short
explanation and allow your attention to wander freely if you’d like. (thanks
for that line Albus! – 10 pts for your house if you can tell me which Harry
Potter book that’s paraphrased from).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So the Rules: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I live in the central time zone, the times on
this calendar reflect that, adjust accordingly for those that have traveled
north of the Mason Dixie Line or spread your wings out West. Don’t call me
cause you missed your “favorite” show/movie, that’s not my mess. Be a big girl
or boy and crank up that DVR and find out when it comes on again cause odds are
it will. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Time Zones are hard and sometimes I screw up
the conversion from Eastern Time Zone to Central. See Note above for how I feel
about you finding a mistake of time on the calendar. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Unless otherwise stated the times are PM, this
calendar is also geared towards the after work hours of life cause well it’s
about me and that’s when I can watch. My office won’t like it if I watch these
movies at my desk as I format documents, I mean I do that but they don’t really
like it. Feel free to check out these channels and look at the day time viewing
for those that are able cause it’s there but I’m at work so it doesn’t exist in
my world. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lastly this calendar shows things <b>I want to
see</b>, movies and specials that take me back to my childhood or that just
make me happy. Some are kid themed and some are more adult oriented. PLEASE be
mindful of that before you sit down with your little and they can’t sleep cause
Freddy might get them. That’s your mess not mine. Seriously don’t be that
person and there’s always one. This is supposed to be for fun, if you make it
not be for fun well you won’t get it next year. PS if you don’t get this one
you don’t get the Christmas one either so be sure that’s what you need/want
before firing off that e-mail. This isn’t social media where you can say
whatever you want without consequences. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have been doing this calendar since at least 2008, and have
learned over the years that saving it to your phone so you can check it on the
fly is the best way. I do that either as a JPEG or PDF so I make both available
cause I’m awesome like that. When I print it, and I do, I print it 11X17 but
8.5X11 is often good enough, especially this year with so much additional space
on it.</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now I must warn you … these networks have some kind of dyslexia
cause I have noticed that they will show the movies and their sequels sometimes
in order sometimes but often not so much …. I’ve only listed one or the ones I
want to try and catch in the idea that if you are watching you will also be
alerted that the next show after Halloween Town is well Halloween Town 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of Halloween or Friday the 13th
or even Nightmare on Elm Street when there are more sequels than the Queen had
jewels (RIP Liz) they really got dumb. Like on one day (same network mind you) they
show Halloween 6 (1995)…then 4 (1988 </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">ß</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> My
favorite BTW) …then 5 (1989)…then resurrection (2002), then H20 (1998), and
then end the day with the original from 1978. Like what?! I get it ..show the
popular ones when more are watching but that just made my head hurt and now I
gotta go lay down.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As always I’ve highlighted shows I hope to catch in purple but
also wanted to alert you to a few items of note below, assuming that you are
still with me and if so …. Wow congrats! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Freeform - 31 Nights of Halloween </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">–<b> </b>They
100% understand the assignment. I will admit when they went from ABC Family to
whatever they were then to Freeform I was nervous. However I think they know
what their core audience wants so for the entire Month of October (and for
Christmas they do even more (Nov/Dec)) they show seasonal programing <b>all
month long</b>. That’s not to say that everything they air is worthy of your
time, or that they aren’t re-airing things so much it feels like watching MTV
on the weekend, but if you are looking for something the littles can watch,
that they will enjoy and you will too grab a chair, get a blanket, and some
popcorn and enjoy. This is my go-to when I can’t find anything else to watch
that particular evening. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Syfy - 31 Days of Halloween – </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SYFY also understands the assignment.
If Freeform is where you go with your littles, SYFY is where you go after your
littles trot off to bed. It’s truly<b> </b>the greatest place to watch
Halloween fun this time of year cause they don’t hold back at all. They show
classics and new movies and everything in between. This year they are even
showing Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 (which he had to make after screwing up the
Halloween franchise (that’s not just my opinion btw which is law of course, but
by his own admission he knew he messed up and had to fix it – seriously don’t
watch the first one, after a horrible 15-30 minutes it’s a freaking shot by
shot remake of the original Halloween but not even as good if that’s possible.
. . but his second one more than made up for it). If you are looking good ole
horror … this is the place you need to land nightly. Tho where’s my Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, where’s my SAW, where’s My Bloody Valentine, Resident Evil,
Leprechaun, BLAIR FREAKING WITCH? At this point I’d even take Jessica Biel in
her two tight white t-shirt and low slung pants in my face for 2 hours, or even
……. Candyman……<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just to see something
different. <b>NOTE:</b> While this calendar is not about series who have a
horror type twist, I am going to break this rule to tell you all to checkout <b><i>Reginald
the Vampire</i></b> when it premier’s on SYFY Oct. 5<sup>th</sup> cause it
looks like it’s going to be great fun and it’s my rule and I can break it if I
wanna!!!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">AMC - Fear Fest starts – </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">AMC is where you go for Classic
horror. I admit over the years I’ve had a love hate relationship with Fear Fest
over the years cause at one point the Walking Dead took it over and I ranted
that it’s not about the Walking Dead or the many spin offs and talk shows it
created. However I do admit that they have over 80 shows over the next few
weeks that kind of make up for it. This year they appear to be having a Stephen
King love fest (Pet Cemetery, Misery, Carrie, etc) instead of Fear Fest but I’m
not even mad at that. Thei programing this year includes lots of Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>,
House of Wax (the original and I believe the Chad Michael Murray/Paris Hilton
versions), Thirteen Ghosts, Jeepers Creepers and btw CandyMan makes an
appearance (that’s 2) on this channel several times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fox – The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror - </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Simpson's Halloween special on Fox is going to have 2 specials for their annual
"Treehouse of Horror.” Instead of breaking it up into several smaller
stories they will have 2 episodes that focus on a singular Halloween themed fun
one of which will include a Pennywise spoof! According to their Twitter the It
Spoof will air Oct. 23<sup>rd</sup> so at least we know when that one will air!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hallmark – Fall Harvest - </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Halmark is
debuting several “fall” themed movies (not scary but puts you in the mood for
that Pumpkin Spiced Latte I guess). Many of these movies debuted in a few
months ago and are re-airing now but there are a few “premieres” that will hit
the screen that I’ve highlighted on the calendar. If you are looking for Fall
but not scary or gory … these are your people. Watch them now before they go
into full on Christmas meltdown. These don’t rate high on my list but I like to
throw some stuff on there for you guys sometimes too. <span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Disney Channel – Monstober - </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Halloween themed related movies and
shows throughout the month and as the faithful to this calendar know ..that’s
not what this is about but they do have a few “original movies” that might be
worth your time or just fire up Disney Plus and watch Hocus Pocus. The fact
they have not embraced Disney+ and re-aired some of their classics is something
I will never understand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Turner Classic Movies - </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This might be the last time TCM shows
up on my calendar cause my cable provider has decided that I don’t deserve
Ted’s classic movies (throw back to those old enough to remember how it all
started). However, I love the nod to “classic” horror and the shows that can’t
be found elsewhere. There is an ap for this one but it is stupid expensive and
so I haven’t bit the bullet on that one just yet. So, enjoy it while you can,
if you can. It appears Vampires are the name of the game this year Tho they
also show things like The Ghost Ship and Spider Baby, Frankenstein, and the
2001 : A Space Odyssey so it’s not all blood suckers this year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Food Network - </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Once again Food Network jumped the Halloween
gun by airing most of their programing in September, which totally makes sense.
Halloween Baking Championship started Sep. 12<sup>th</sup> Halloween Wars
started Sep. 18<sup>th</sup>, Halloween Cookie Challenge started Sep. 26<sup>th</sup>
…. I’m done with you Food Network … however there are a few bright spots. <b>Outrageous
Pumpkins</b> starts Oct. 2<sup>nd</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>Kids Baking Championship Trick or Treat</b> starts Oct. 17<sup>th</sup>
if you are interested in that kind of thing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s talk Digital … since that’s all the rage … <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ok … Digital and Streaming is taking over and thus TV is only
interested in keeping their heads above water not special programing no matter the
season. Heck my nephews don’t even have cable anymore. So, they use the
calendar to look up show names as opposed to setting DVRs. I knew it was coming
and this calendar was my way of trying to keep it at bay, but it’s still sad to
me that we are in fact here. That you can only see the Great Pumpkin if you
have Apple TV+ (unless PBS brokers some deal again – if they are I’m not
finding it yet but it’s my sincere belief that they are currently in a room
having those talks), or Disney+ is the only place to see <b>Hocus Pocus 2</b>
(available Sep 30<sup>th</sup>) , or Peacock is where you go to see the epic
conclusion to the Halloween franchise (<b>Halloween Ends</b> available Oct. 14<sup>th</sup>)
as we know it. While it’s fun having these shows at our fingertips it also
takes away from the anticipation of it, at least to me. That I am sorry I can’t
do anything that night cause whatever is on and I don’t wanna miss it moments
are now a thing of the past. Heck even most network TV will be on Hulu within
24-48 hours, so go have dinner with that friend after work and don’t worry NCIS
whatever will be available online tomorrow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So for my digital folks, of which I admit I am now one, see the
links below but I will admit that all of me believes if we calculated up the
“subscriptions” for all these services we’d see that Cable had its advantages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.tvguide.com/news/best-halloween-movies-to-watch-netflix-hbo-max-disney-plus-hulu/">The
Best Halloween Movies to Watch on Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, and More in 2022 -
TV Guide</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://people.com/tv/best-halloween-tv-shows-to-stream/">Best
Halloween TV Shows to Stream in 2022 (people.com)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://movieweb.com/halloween-tv-show-episodes/?fbclid=IwAR1uPYFKKF2ay2zAgIkTfFe1surNy3kGEXp8hqEvpJOnwY3mlkED_dPwQBU">The
Best Halloween TV Show Episodes Ever (movieweb.com)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.vitalthrills.com/peacock-october-2022/?fbclid=IwAR0CNb8oAYClB0sa9l6BeFIilcvqSZo1SFnc19DmyFPvGNQGy2MltcfGiks">Peacock
October 2022 Movies, TV Series and Sports (vitalthrills.com)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://comicbook.com/horror/news/netflix-halloween-movies-horror-streaming-best-picks-october/?fbclid=IwAR1uPYFKKF2ay2zAgIkTfFe1surNy3kGEXp8hqEvpJOnwY3mlkED_dPwQBU">Netflix
Launches Its "Streams & Screams" Hub for Halloween Horror
(comicbook.com)</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In closing, assuming you are still with me and God only know why
you would be, the intention of this calendar, is to get you and your loved ones
to pause and spend some time making memories. Maybe carve a pumpkin while
watching, create some fantastic Halloween Treats from your various Social Media
sites while watching, or work on your costume – don’t forget the props - and
RELAX <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and unwind from the busy work day,
work week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwHydLaYTOksxqI-VnAGYjlAE6ubqq42KSz9EC-0nuy77X1dd7yT-q6uTPFb8MpfLAYI6yBEGcg0StnEKr6ELm9Trr_c5n8yTywls0JkdQgbAIXLEVWV7e3eVoRho39kg72ZGABPfQ1Q7lsj0_0HbDUqZMnHn19UAVBQ-OSaO7FM_HBVPjVGVqtGf6-Q/s10200/Halloween%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6600" data-original-width="10200" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwHydLaYTOksxqI-VnAGYjlAE6ubqq42KSz9EC-0nuy77X1dd7yT-q6uTPFb8MpfLAYI6yBEGcg0StnEKr6ELm9Trr_c5n8yTywls0JkdQgbAIXLEVWV7e3eVoRho39kg72ZGABPfQ1Q7lsj0_0HbDUqZMnHn19UAVBQ-OSaO7FM_HBVPjVGVqtGf6-Q/w640-h414/Halloween%202022.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, sit back, scare yourself, and have a GREAT Halloween! It’s
fall people enjoy it! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Marcy <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-8585319137818228432022-09-18T14:55:00.007-07:002022-09-18T14:57:31.132-07:00Time for a catch up<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I’ve been typing this for a few weeks now in my head … so below is
fraction of the stuff I’ve written in those hours between sleeping and being
awake, or in the car on my way to or from work, or just sitting and starring at
nothing (literally) on TV thinking I should be writing on this blog. So .. um…
Enjoy!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dragon Con was in short …. Awesome. As always. Granted there was a lot
of great Cosplay and even more amazing food, panels, parties but the best part
was spending 6 days uninterrupted with my favorite person on this planet. <a href="https://twitter.com/theonlygolden">Golden</a>.
In short there was over 65K people for this year’s con and they raised over
$95K for their charity (Open Hand ATL) – every year they pick a charity and
throughout the Con raise money then Dragon Con matches it so that means they
raised over $190K for Open Hand ATL! That my friends is beyond awesome! There
was a blood drive and in my sleep deprived state I’m sure I saw the final total
of donors but I can’t find it. Needless to say Dragon Con is about more than a
big party, cos play, vendors, games and yes alcohol. That being said I enjoyed
those things as well. We also did a few things we have never done before like
hearing the Georgia Philharmonic which let me tell you was a lot of fun. Apparently
a very popular event. It was a very chill vacay and much much needed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work was great while I was gone. I didn’t really check in like I normally
do. I let the guys handle it and they did. We had one or two hick ups but
nothing major and nothing that’s going to set the house on fire really. It was
nice to know that when I’m not there they can handle it and often don’t just
cause I’m there to do so. Now that I know they can I’m going to push for them to
do it more often. I usually rush back to work as soon as I return home from
Dragon Con. This year I went up a day early (which frankly threw me and Golden
way off all freaking week but was nice) and when I came home it was late on
Tuesday. Wednesday I was a zonked out mess and Friday we were going out of town
for my nephew’s engagement party (that’s right people the oldest nephew popped
the question, she said yes and I’ve bought three dresses for the big day (March
2023)). So I didn’t want to come home exhausted, go back to work exhausted, and
go to the engagement party exhausted and then come back for a work week like quadruple
exhausted (assuming that’s a thing). So for the first time I took 8 days off
work. 8 whole work days (granted you’d think I was gone a month the way my co-workers
reacted upon my return). I admit … it was nice. My boss told me upon my return
he fully thought I’d start working from home and I was like you know I almost
did then was like nah. He said he was proud of me for doing it cause he knew I needed
it. I said yes yes I did.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">While I was gone I celebrated my 19</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> anniversary at work. In
2 </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">years,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> my career can legally drink. I can’t believe it’s been 19 years. That’s
just nuts to me. When I think back over the years I never dreamed I’d make it
to 10 then I thought ok maybe 15 and now I’m knocking on the door of 20. It’s
been a long time of ups, downs, horrible bosses, good bosses and a great boss.
I’ve come around the block a few times on hating and loving what I do, being
frustrated beyond belief about it and also caring so much I made myself sick.
In the last year or so I’ve risen to manager of my department with several
employees “under” me, lost 2, (one I’m not sure I ever had and another to a
growing family), gained one, almost lost another but fought really hard for her
cause she’s more amazing than I think she knows. My current goal is to make her
see what I see in herself and try to overcome the horrible crap she’s been through
over the years and to get the other to understand she’s here to stay and get
over the hump of constantly being in fear that she’s not doing enough or will
be let go at the drop of a hat. That’s not how we do things at least in my
department. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s been very interesting
being the boss. I’ve never been in that position before and I’m trying to emulate
the ones that showed me what to do, taught me my role and pushed me to be the
person I am today, as opposed to that Asshat who can well fuck off, she knows
who she is. Ha! 19 is something I’m going to be very proud of and here’s to many
more. If most people work say 40 years I’m half way there … kind of.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Golden also got a promotion recently at her job and I’m super proud of
both of us. We are finally starting to see the results of decades of hard work
and dedication and it’s about damn time!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tomorrow I’m getting up at the crack of dawn, getting ready for work, and
then sitting down with my mom to watch the Queen’s funeral. Mom’s been a huge
royal family watcher for years I find them fascinating, but mom knows the names
and titles and dates for important things. I figure if it starts at 5 my time
it will be over in time for me to get to work on time, plus I don’t really want
mom watching it alone. I got up with her to watch Diana but as a teen who
really didn’t care fell asleep pretty quickly and woke up to mom crying. I couldn’t
understand at the time why I mean she didn’t know that lady or her family, but
she was connected to the fact that her two boys were now alone in a sea of well
… whatever that is. She said it made me think of my brother and I. She appreciated
me watching with her even if I did fall asleep.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">With the kids back in school, football season getting underway, and
fall weather kind of in the air it’s time to turn my attention to pumpkins and calendars
and socks ……. Speaking of which I need to finish my laundry. Until next time…..
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN and prayers for King as he steps into his new role.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-21820512810046605792022-08-14T13:22:00.009-07:002022-08-14T13:22:57.745-07:00Long time no talk ….. sorry about that
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Good lord, is it really August already? It has been a while since I
posted something on here. That’s a bad Marcy. I typically strive for a post a
month, or every other month, and frankly it sometimes stretches to “oh crap I forgot
the blog” post times but that’s typically when life has frankly …. Gotten in
the way. That and my lack of having anything useful to post which then leads me
to not wanting to waste yall’s time so … I just…. Don’t…post. Then I feel a
little bad about it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHj-vW-l2rU3deOkxk1vDsqpFgJtLgTG53nlzhHxMaOmzOty3hhTxxumtI0oCuFyyqKkEDTn_iAmBMWPKRo75eHHbbp16-UICScPmnMj6P0pUQG1627Bz51FELKFcAPqCognWr0-c2quLHW9aCendvWUsiS-eCh-ZD8VFLyeWZJqA5a8pMtisZv1NaQ/s1100/Tim-OBrien-The-loss-of-time.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="1100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHj-vW-l2rU3deOkxk1vDsqpFgJtLgTG53nlzhHxMaOmzOty3hhTxxumtI0oCuFyyqKkEDTn_iAmBMWPKRo75eHHbbp16-UICScPmnMj6P0pUQG1627Bz51FELKFcAPqCognWr0-c2quLHW9aCendvWUsiS-eCh-ZD8VFLyeWZJqA5a8pMtisZv1NaQ/s320/Tim-OBrien-The-loss-of-time.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Golden knows this ….. so for my Birthday/Crimmus gift she gave me a
book …..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A 5 Year Question a Day Memory
Journal” cause she loves journaling. I guess I consider this blog my journal
and I have started several journals over the years but never kept one going,
not really anyway. I think of things to write about all damn day until I sit
still long enough to actually write then it all flies out of my brain. Sadly however
I leafed through this book and like some of the questions are … well like who
wrote this thing?!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">For clarity here are a few sample questions ….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Do you think people really can change? </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Morning person or night owl? </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Describe your worst overreaction. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My biggest source of stress comes from …..</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">How quickly do you get back up when life knocks you down? </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Who was the last person you hurt? </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What is something you would never compromise on?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What was the last question you asked someone?</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Now these are random like I opened a page and wrote down what I saw. Now
I’m not saying all the pages are … bad I’m just saying nothing jumped out at me
as something to write about or worthy of wasting your eye time with. Then again
that’s the point I guess. To get back into the habit of taking a subject, any
subject and making it interesting. I’m frankly struggling to find the
interesting in anything at the moment. I can’t even call it the can’t help it’s
….. I just have zero desire to do literally a damn thing. I have thought
several times about seeking some help and it might come to that but for now I’m
trying to get to Dragon Con and hope after a week or so of “chilling” if you
can call Dragon Con chilling, that my battery will recharge enough that I reenter
society for lack of a better word. Granted I’m not, nor have I ever been, a
social butterfly but the idea that someone somewhere might want to do something
sends me almost into a blind panic somedays.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A few weeks ago, a coworker said something about not waking up and
thus something not getting taken care of and it fell out of my mouth before I even
thought it, “I dream about that every night” She was shocked and now “prays”
for me and checks on me throughout the day. I really don’t know where that came
from but I also realized in that moment I wasn’t wrong. Part of me would love
to lay down go to sleep and just call it a day. Hence why I’m thinking I might
need to go talk with someone professional.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tUMNQt3dD9RzW2L7ebfzMNKlqpfcarjay0sDiQS004nlmqGTd8e_SwSXiUki9Kb2Tbwm-2pZMsCFFTH7C5y28OiAvAkGMFxiTQ-k5Q8VTaS692wJqYWxnqbLuNk8pt8BDV_S27aOqiMjR0bxSzrpPATcIF7go4TThsJiuivcW2BA4WNLmUuPwkszwg/s1025/c097f0f680d381435a84414fe115e0cc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1025" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tUMNQt3dD9RzW2L7ebfzMNKlqpfcarjay0sDiQS004nlmqGTd8e_SwSXiUki9Kb2Tbwm-2pZMsCFFTH7C5y28OiAvAkGMFxiTQ-k5Q8VTaS692wJqYWxnqbLuNk8pt8BDV_S27aOqiMjR0bxSzrpPATcIF7go4TThsJiuivcW2BA4WNLmUuPwkszwg/s320/c097f0f680d381435a84414fe115e0cc.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It also hasn’t helped that work has just about killed me. I’ve been maxed
out on PTO since the first of June but have been unable to take any cause we
have had wave after wave of submittals hit us, and you can’t work OT and charge
Vacation so on the rare occasions I have taken a long lunch or left early it
wasn’t even considered PTO time, plus training a new employee (whose doing an amazing
job), it’s just been an onslaught of BS since I’ll say March, and I could
likely trace it back further than that if I tried. As a matter of fact when I looked
up and realized I missed the “summer” break I was shook. Yet…here we are.
August 14<sup>th</sup>, just weeks for Dragon Con and yet all of me fears something
is going to screw that trip up. Honestly guys at this point I’m not sure that’s
something I could handle. That could quite possibly send me right over the edge
of this cliff I’m standing on. My boss made a comment about me being gone 2
weeks (it’s just under but who is counting) and when I didn’t respond I think
he realized how bad it really is. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBm8RjqeRC8GbDt7oQ7Yv03REJ7ArJUEFV9DnOH1qzme8CcKm_JbCMc91AaWSwN_WfxYak5ICIKlpTME4GQozhAi4-AVZ_6q0d1KPfo3LRgtBS0_7E1xLf2bMouExj3Ncb4zXYRRwIqhjjkMowaDnVlpJOX8se4vzWdBqV8c-FDg6CBwLrMAr-TM92g/s600/1560278529_i1l7nq1q59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="600" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBm8RjqeRC8GbDt7oQ7Yv03REJ7ArJUEFV9DnOH1qzme8CcKm_JbCMc91AaWSwN_WfxYak5ICIKlpTME4GQozhAi4-AVZ_6q0d1KPfo3LRgtBS0_7E1xLf2bMouExj3Ncb4zXYRRwIqhjjkMowaDnVlpJOX8se4vzWdBqV8c-FDg6CBwLrMAr-TM92g/s320/1560278529_i1l7nq1q59.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’m leaving on a Tuesday to go to Birmingham,
then Wed we travel to Dragon Con and I will be coming home from Dragon Con the
following Tuesday. However I am taking all that next week off as well cause well
damnit I want to. My nephew’s engagement party is that Saturday and I didn’t
want to come home exhausted, go back to work exhausted, and jump back in a car
to drive up for the party…exhausted. So I’m gonna take a few “me days” to
recover from Dragon Con and go back to work that following Monday. It will be
by far the longest time I’ve been away from the office and when I tell you I
plan to be away from the office I mean it. This is the first weekend in 2
months I haven’t opened my laptop to “get ahead” and all of me both feels
guilty about it and also very proud of me. I need this … and damit I’m going to
take it. It’s been about 2 years since I had a proper vacation and it’s about
damn time!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5T-knUX8AbRmpMiFG-rn8L2FzygcNPM2xn6UAViTCVexal6ZQwT8p2ExaRDl63kr5XcBtFZ8Gda-0Q9sKwXfP0nIqtc4KOvkvGd7FjWhT0bifwyprYfP0s-YxhkG7DpWYBzH3gxmypemJmaqdqkPQzbfBgVDAmhbewpH5-laTJvIWBg3glxSG9f1IA/s1195/1117060841-Maxine_0003.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1195" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5T-knUX8AbRmpMiFG-rn8L2FzygcNPM2xn6UAViTCVexal6ZQwT8p2ExaRDl63kr5XcBtFZ8Gda-0Q9sKwXfP0nIqtc4KOvkvGd7FjWhT0bifwyprYfP0s-YxhkG7DpWYBzH3gxmypemJmaqdqkPQzbfBgVDAmhbewpH5-laTJvIWBg3glxSG9f1IA/s320/1117060841-Maxine_0003.webp" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So here’s to getting through the next two weeks so that I can enjoy
the weeks to follow!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Stay tuned for Dragon Con shenanigans lord knows I need em. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy<o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-37961427012450427722022-05-07T17:42:00.002-07:002022-05-07T17:42:42.808-07:00Graduation ….. moving forward …. and words of wisdom<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So a few years ago, my oldest nephew was graduating from High School
and starting his journey that would lead him to Auburn University and
eventually to Pharmacy school, which he is currently in. Now I sit here after a
day of celebrating nephew #2 who is about to embark on a similar journey. A
week from Tuesday he will walk across that same football field and graduate with
his class before heading to Auburn in the fall to study engineering.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve posted on this blog a few times about my college experience, how
it led me to find my bestest friend in all the land (@theonlygolden) and how it
shaped me into the person I never dreamed I’d be. Back in 2014 I did a post
called “college advice” which highlighted some things <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2019/11/thankfulness-challenge-college-days.html">I wish I had known</a> as a
little Tiger for those joining the work force. This time I’ve decided to
highlight some things I wish I had known as a little Tiger that were more
general words of advice for your college experience. So consider these more
advice to make your college experience more enjoyable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzYTmCFaEZEaQN5JQtFBMmQCGsGxd-fTnKgQv3iQBoLZmdlLocfmq-3KvILmeqkhlJK45kpath14Z2mDvuXto-CC3hRbilW_T4cdlKlHGLAyIB27e-Bdb03AY2DKoQOcQIyc-VqfJi1z2vawQJw0fBKJzJWBeHdy3vUS8XKYjcul2dsauv0EaeL11dw/s1000/fea-campus-social-life1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1000" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzYTmCFaEZEaQN5JQtFBMmQCGsGxd-fTnKgQv3iQBoLZmdlLocfmq-3KvILmeqkhlJK45kpath14Z2mDvuXto-CC3hRbilW_T4cdlKlHGLAyIB27e-Bdb03AY2DKoQOcQIyc-VqfJi1z2vawQJw0fBKJzJWBeHdy3vUS8XKYjcul2dsauv0EaeL11dw/s320/fea-campus-social-life1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">So here goes ….</span></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Be open to change<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Right now my youngest nephew is leaning towards Civil Engineering but
who knows what’s in store for him really. I mean when I started at Auburn I was
heading for Communications with dreams of being a researcher at CNN. I quickly
ended up making a bee line to the left and ended up with a BA in English with
no clue of what to do next. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
aforementioned oldest nephew started in Chemical Engineering and is now in his
2<sup>nd</sup> year of Pharmacy school. My point is you know the path you’d
like to take but don’t be afraid of the exits along the way. Sometimes those
unexpected detours take you where you need to be not where you thought you wanted
to be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Career Student<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That said avoid being a career student. That kid who is like a
semester away from graduation and freaks out about it so they change their major
buying them more time. Eventually you will have to choose and in the time it could
have taken you to get multiple degrees you end up with say an Accounting degree
you can’t really do anything with in the real world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJpHD-17CRYiQ-qlj_3SgQ9Sx0Du8oCtq7Dr6cOPebJeaPzkwLuHHQ787YZEyUtmnvslZeE0TwEoFohVPCZwUvrCAXjVQL25_woRrSLH45Ewr6eUeLPr1QkFMBNZvDMH-boCbLY18oan6ncbdkM02U-B_LYRBAG4S9yDJpYE0eOahddshHPsAp8BEiQ/s1000/campus-activities-pizza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJpHD-17CRYiQ-qlj_3SgQ9Sx0Du8oCtq7Dr6cOPebJeaPzkwLuHHQ787YZEyUtmnvslZeE0TwEoFohVPCZwUvrCAXjVQL25_woRrSLH45Ewr6eUeLPr1QkFMBNZvDMH-boCbLY18oan6ncbdkM02U-B_LYRBAG4S9yDJpYE0eOahddshHPsAp8BEiQ/s320/campus-activities-pizza.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Be Social</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’m not saying go to that frat party and get hammered. I’m also not
saying stand in the middle of the concourse in the quad and scream at people
about religion, what I’m saying is find that happen medium where you can talk
to classmates, go to a few parties, attend the get to know you events freshman
year. Who knows your bestie could be there and change your life. Or you’ll meet
your soul mate or you’ll find out that you want no part of those people what so
ever and narrow down the path to finding your tribe. Your friends, your ride or
die partners through college. Know that some will be forever friends, some will
be blips on the radar that is your college experience, some will be footnotes
in the stories you tell after getting out of school and some you won’t even
recall when you really try to. They are all important. They all have a meaning and
there is a reason they have been sucked into the vortex that is your life.
Learn from them, grow with them, grow away from them but they will in some way
shape the person you become even if you don’t realize they are shaping you at
all.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7JzrEHVVB3bA44gdQGdsOvy5RPRxl-5EgWaFCaynoYr9TLswsk4vAGsaus0OONYiYoulBiKPNPObCepK96gv6lFyNlO3CdtvpMaYk4f4HUtjPWdhKSlR6DoDqMGAZ7NxzTAKCd2ACPqpAn7GtR8kUikkC_fxVoc9lTyaW_6zKB6AJrV8sxiDR6hbhg/s959/960x0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="959" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7JzrEHVVB3bA44gdQGdsOvy5RPRxl-5EgWaFCaynoYr9TLswsk4vAGsaus0OONYiYoulBiKPNPObCepK96gv6lFyNlO3CdtvpMaYk4f4HUtjPWdhKSlR6DoDqMGAZ7NxzTAKCd2ACPqpAn7GtR8kUikkC_fxVoc9lTyaW_6zKB6AJrV8sxiDR6hbhg/s320/960x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Drinking ….. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’m not going to tell you not to do it, that will just make you want
to do it more. Just learn what you can and can’t handle and learn it quickly. You
will likely drink, sometimes you will drink too much, know that you don’t have
to drink to have a good time. I know that sounds hard to believe but often you’ll
find that not drinking opens your eyes to what’s really going on around you and
you will learn just how little fun most of those guys are having. That’s not to
say that drinking can’t result in a good time cause it can. It can make you
relax and allow you to let loose and enjoy yourself but only when used
correctly. It’s going to take time to learn that. Surround yourself with a crew
that will take care of you while you figure that out. Every once in a while be
that person in your tribe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Drugs….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I didn’t do them. I knew many who did. I did not. I can’t give you advice
on this but I can tell you that most people will be cool with you saying no. Cause
that’s more for them. So feel free to be different and say no. If you do
partake, have a tribe around you that will take care of you, will lead you when
you need to be led and that will make sure you get home safely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Get Involved<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Attend things … sporting events, socials, and special event days at your
school. My school has what they call “Hey Day” every fall where you well say hi
to each other and there are events throughout campus. I wish I had taken more
time to attend more of that. During the first few weeks of the school year
there are all kind of welcome events, some specific to your college, others more
schoolwide, there are also events like this during finals week. Free food is
always a good thing and these events have that and more. Take the time to stop
and enjoy these things, even if you are just grabbing a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plate on the way to your next destination.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Stay with your group<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I learned this one the hard way. When you go out with your buddies,
your friend, be it a frat party, a house party, a sporting event, a night at the
movies, whatever. STAY WITH YOUR GROUP! Remember your training from elementary school
and keep the buddy system going. If you are at a party and don’t want to be
there at the very least find your group and let them know you are heading out.
Don’t be woken up 2 hours later with your group frantically banging on your
door cause they couldn’t find you and were worried about you. Don’t be that
person. Be the worrier not the one that’s making people worry. Most definitely don’t
do it twice. The third or fourth time people might not worry and they definitely
won’t look for you and that might be the time you really need them to do so.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’m sure there is more I could tell you and more you could learn from related
to my experiences in school but I’ll leave it here. The best piece of advice I
can give is ignore the advice from most. Listen to it, take it in but know your
experience and theirs are going to be different. Different time, different events
even if it’s the same place. You will need to find your path, find your way and
you will. Just breathe and most of all enjoy it. On the other side is at least 30-40
years of work. So make the most of your time to make mistakes, to</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> be silly, to
be stupid, and to learn from all of that before you hit the real world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmH5ZDrXcPDIcVqfFPtB57eKhfxf6P176FNCC2JNblE9d_oh5-QQbSaXZ3rAHW3gkMtGjL2VRdXDUPFiQP0ddkUA-N3iy0us1LFSyg1_t82KKwt8D7vLBAbxLaFcGWx9ZKgE0Fn6OJQgndBToNYAdskM2ylz5LlwapDbgj32RaWG0B7ptHCFCncb748w/s1400/GraduationHatsThrownIntoTheAir-1400x891-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1400" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmH5ZDrXcPDIcVqfFPtB57eKhfxf6P176FNCC2JNblE9d_oh5-QQbSaXZ3rAHW3gkMtGjL2VRdXDUPFiQP0ddkUA-N3iy0us1LFSyg1_t82KKwt8D7vLBAbxLaFcGWx9ZKgE0Fn6OJQgndBToNYAdskM2ylz5LlwapDbgj32RaWG0B7ptHCFCncb748w/s320/GraduationHatsThrownIntoTheAir-1400x891-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Congrats class of 2022 …. And good luck!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy (@beaslma) <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-74495660198364392932022-03-13T11:46:00.004-07:002022-03-13T12:41:08.745-07:00A little …. me time.<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I played hooky from Church today, cause I needed a me day. I slept in,
got some laundry going, watched some trash TV, reset all out clocks cause of
the end of daylight savings time and just kind of … hung out. AT some point
today I </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>might </i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">do my taxes. Mine are never really that hard it’s just waiting for all
the documentation to arrive so I can do it then … procrastination. Eventually
however I’ll sit down, download the program and get it done.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday me and
my coworkers participated in a chili cook off that ended up being a very long
day. We have been doing this for several years, skipping last year cause of
Covid (in 2020 it was the last thing we did before everything shut down). It was pretty cool cause they moved it this year to an area that we are
helping revamp and so it was like our project was literally on display. At one
point the project manager of that project was talking to someone else when a
huge 18 wheeler went through the Roundabout that we designed and everything
stopped in our tent as we watched this huge truck make its way through it. One
of the big deals of that part of the project was that Mardi Gras Floats had to
be able to navigate it (successfully done a few weeks ago btw) and big 18-wheelers
that often used the route needed to be able to navigate it as well. After what we saw on Saturday … mission
accomplished. We were all quite proud.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I got there at 8:30
but the guys doing the actual cooking got there at 5AM. It was stupid cold.
Like in the low 30s cold and windy. The cold wasn’t so bad cause you could put
on layers but that wind just cut you in half. When I got there at 8:30 it was
still pretty bad but overall it was a good team building day of fun, laughter,
selling our chili to people, and raising money for the American Cancer Society.
I get there around 9ish cause by then the table is clear of all the “food prep”
and I can put out the tablecloth with our name on the font of course and the give
a way items and make the booth “pretty.” Every year once we are there, I think
damn we could have done more to decorate but our focus is always on the chili
not the extras around it. We are hearing that our chili came in 2<sup>nd</sup> …
but no official results yet. Everyone that tried it said it was good and that’s
good enough for us. So all in all a great day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">However, I decided
to take today as a me day. I’m doing what I want when I want and how I want. Which
includes updating everyone on this blog. I am now some 13 days into Lent. I
have not had caffeine, nor been on social media since Mardi Gras (March 1<sup>st</sup>).
The lack of caffeine has nearly done me in. The headache was unbareable for the
first 3 or 4 days. At one point it hurt to even touch my head let alone brushing
my hair. At one point I almost downed a coke just to make it go away. My SIL
said “you can take a break on Sundays” but I thought one coke would end it all so
I refrained. I have had more water than I think I have ever drank in my life. I
have also used the bathroom more than I have ever in my life. Which I guess is
a good thing. I can see inches falling away, slowly but surely. Plus I feel
better. I’m also sleeping more than I ever have. I seem to be overly exhausted either
due to lack of caffeine or the last few months of non-stop insanity. Either way
it’s been nice getting some actual rest. I guess that’s what the lack of being
on my phone will do for a person.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Golden is also doing
some self care during these 40 days, she’s doing her 40 acts of kindness as usual
but has also started a vow of silence on Sundays. No using her phone for social
media, no texting or talking just her working in her art therapy books, journals,
reading, and just playing with her dog. I’m glad she’s doing that cause I think
she really needs a day to recharge and chill.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There’s a lot to
look forward to in the next few weeks, the SEC Gymnastics Championships, the
NCAA Regionals, National Tournament, the Final 4, Invictus Games, French Open,
Indianapolis 500, Wimbledon, all kinds of fun athletics on display. So it should
be an interesting few months!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Hope you guys are
having a great Lent!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-66237549162324412232022-03-01T13:17:00.001-08:002022-03-01T13:19:15.363-08:00Happy 2022 … wait what it’s already March ?!<p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZc__N89oDbc3e58gvDPmsif04Gp64OFPLyLs-Ec7yzP_7riwzpvDoH4PgBmet3UQS3nz5h3IK2L6Lb4OcWeT0VKWXlFcRkhhFbK6zBxQ_D7lwPL8LSGI6XvPcwEYbXrPfKYqN0M3Zc6hjOwDW3tWdB7HDXq4IsziE9bPlbMlOeMnWMXvVRepvCVmElw=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZc__N89oDbc3e58gvDPmsif04Gp64OFPLyLs-Ec7yzP_7riwzpvDoH4PgBmet3UQS3nz5h3IK2L6Lb4OcWeT0VKWXlFcRkhhFbK6zBxQ_D7lwPL8LSGI6XvPcwEYbXrPfKYqN0M3Zc6hjOwDW3tWdB7HDXq4IsziE9bPlbMlOeMnWMXvVRepvCVmElw=s320" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If 2020 was a literal blur and 2021 and was kinda blur the first 3
months of 2022 have been just </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">nonexistent</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> for me hence my first posting of the
year coming in March. Between working getting insanely stupid in January to Golden
finally getting Covid (with her job it wasn’t when it was if and if finally caught
up with her) and the stress of losing my grandma on my fraking birthday, working non stop on a proposal in the middle of </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">burring</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> my grandmother, and
then Golden getting pneumonia in February and work continuing to blow up hard
for me, plus two new employees to train and get up to speed it’s just been a
hot minute since I could breathe. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This past weekend my bestie took me to Auburn for some much needed
R&R … we got to watch Gymnastics, and Softball and even squeezed in some
Tom Holland via Uncharted and ate some great food. Got to hang with the nephew and his better half which was a lot of fun and it was just a great relaxing weekend. I didn't realize how much I needed it until we were on our way home and I realized for the first time in MONTHS I was fully relaxed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Today is Mardi
Gras so I’m off of work, I took yesterday off too but ended up working about
half a day. I have a submittal due on Friday so they are hopefully reviewing the
“final draft” now and the work I ended up doing on Monday will make Wednesday a little easier ….. I’m also waiting on a subconsultant to get back with me ….
One that I’ve not communicated with but my Project Manager has. I hate that.
Make the connection then let me and their marketing person get together and
handle the rest. Sigh …… I am trying to treat my vacation (PTO) time with the
respect they deserve. I have neglected it far too long. So today, I spent my time preparing for my next trip.
DRAGON CON !!!!!! I have secured the hotel, I have secured the membership, Golden
is making her plans and guys ….. I have a Care Bear suit. I’m gonna be Tenderheart!!!
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I had Birthday monies in my pocket and a drink in my hand when </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> purchased it but damn if it's not cute. :D If I have the courage to wear it in the Atlanta August heat that is. Stay tuned for that.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Since it’s Mardi Gras you know what that means. It’s nearly time for Lent. 4 ways to observe Lent are below if you are looking for ways to participate. I know
Lent isn’t only about giving up things it can also be about adding things to the
plate but to me erasing something for 40 days is easier than adding as no two days
are ever the same. This </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">year's</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Lent is gonna be hard yall …. Not only am I
giving up social media … which frankly I’m looking forward to at the moment,
but I’m also giving up Caffeine. No soda’s, no tea, just water and juice moving
forward for the next 40 days. Lord help the people I live, work, and are around
on the daily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRryPLCu99F1xlLliUmXdaHHefhdtSbPA73c8X0aNzgp5e-oRa2Jd_1p0bw6vBKxilT_wttQxHb84l6NhiBue_ACQxbvnCQLNrgQ6Nrw9oD2F3XrlgxdP6T7l_NOwuXDmo_vxtnzLwAQyc_DXNnIYenZtbf0XKFLx46Pf_CnuPQWqUZiRk8HbJv009Qw=s3300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRryPLCu99F1xlLliUmXdaHHefhdtSbPA73c8X0aNzgp5e-oRa2Jd_1p0bw6vBKxilT_wttQxHb84l6NhiBue_ACQxbvnCQLNrgQ6Nrw9oD2F3XrlgxdP6T7l_NOwuXDmo_vxtnzLwAQyc_DXNnIYenZtbf0XKFLx46Pf_CnuPQWqUZiRk8HbJv009Qw=s320" width="247" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Why do I post my lent plans here …. It’s to keep me in check. I feel
that my body is begging for me to do something, literally anything to get
myself back in check. I recently did <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
health care screening for my work (something about our health care BS) and well
let’s just say I’ve <b><i>never</i></b> seen numbers so far off. Like it was
all so far off I’ve thought about making a visit to my regular GP to just see
what’s up. My BP is always high … always … even when I’m taking my medication
as prescribed but this time it was like off the charts did it 4 times to make
sure high. That’s not good. My weight has been a constant journey since I stopped
playing sports and well it’s weird I don’t “feel” huge but lord knows that scale
sure felt it. DAMN…. So I am reaching the point where it’s now or never and
starting is always the hardest part. I know you are supposed to look at inches
not weight but damn I still can’t get over that number. So I’m going to spend
the next 40 days trying to retain my body to not crave the crap that I eat and
drink. It’s not that I eat badly, hell most of the time I’m not even finishing the
meal in front of me but I do like soda, I do like chips, I like to “snack” I just
need to make better choices and that’s going to start with me and with Lent. I
feel like if I can do it for 40 days … maybe I can make it last. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> As always you guys hold the world together while I am away and for the love of GOD someone please check on <a href="https://twitter.com/theonlygolden">Golden </a>every once in a while for me! </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wish me luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/beaslma">Marcy</a></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-71484924321421076682022-01-01T08:21:00.002-08:002022-01-02T08:29:06.691-08:00RIP Betty White<div>I have always made fun of people for doing numerous amounts of things.</div><div><br /></div><div>But one thing in particular is having a family member who is damn near pushing 100 years old and then when they start to wind down, their family members are astonished...</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">“What's wrong with great gran, why isn't she getting up and sticking to her routine?”</div><div style="text-align: center;">“I can't believe that PeePaw just lays around all day, he used to be so active!”</div><div style="text-align: center;">“Well MawMaw is getting to be so stubborn and won't eat.”</div><div style="text-align: center;">“It's so depressing the way PopsPop has already picked out his burial suit and pallbearers!”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And then the day arrives when our loved ones pass and everyone is so sad. The arrangements are made and it's finally time for the homegoing ceremony and all the family members come with their family made t-shirts with a picture of Maws or Peepaws or Great Aunt Alma May and in bold ass letters the shirt reads “GONE TOO SOON” with the years of birth and death.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now don't get me wrong, I'm only addressing the people that pass who are tripping towards a century's worth of living on this plane. There are absolutely people that pass too soon, and that is NOT who I am addressing. But regardless, yes I'm willing to admit this makes me look like an asshole. But I can't help it. Think how much a person could experience in 90+ years. 100 years ago, most people didn't own cars and the cars that were available maxed out at 20-28mph. And although I am definitely pissed that we don't have flying cars, we do now have cars that park and drive themselves. The first broadcasting channel in America began in 1928 in less than 100 years we went from nothing to live streaming anywhere and everywhere (Well unless you are in the back of a walmart, then you are screwed.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh the things you will see....in 100 years. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><br /></div><div>BUT... My exception to this rule is the lovely Ms. Betty White. She passed away Dec 31st just 18 days shy of her 100th birthday. And as of yesterday this woman was still making headlines. No matter how many years we could have been afforded this angel of a woman, I'm sure she still could have continued to teach us and lead us right up to the end, even if it was an additional 100years later.</div><div><br /></div><div>She taught me many things including</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Care for the animals and love the doggos</li><li>Never let others judge your value based on the superficial. She was told that she was not photogenic enough to work with movie studios, thus why she worked her way thru radio.</li><li>She was a woman in a mans world, who ended up carving out a place for herself in front of the camera and behind it. Both the Talent and the Boss.</li><li>She bucked racial and societal norms</li><li>She demonstrated that you are never too old to become a household name or to enjoy a good lap dance</li><li>She proved you can grow, but still not take yourself so seriously that you grow up.</li><li>And always remember to feed the gators</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5SRXK7j_0zUsm5GQ3Nrwxf-gSHUjDUdJImqTjRX8Wibw77D-RYfg1JkZbNjHvZf0CTRot3mnyOacQS_FOdTCrLA7Ok1KlSlQT551d-CmC1wEWQeVuxa38-8ilWif3XmxFC3K303F0X3QI/s1600/1641054052296207-1.png" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><div>All that being said, I will be getting a GONE TOO SOON (Jan 17, 1922 – Dec 31, 2021) shirt made in her honor. Because just this once I believe it. And from one Golden Girl to another, Thank you Betty for being all our friends!</div><div><br /></div><div>-golden</div><div>(<a href="https://twitter.com/theonlygolden">@theonlygolden</a>)</div>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-45121307546166177382021-12-31T12:35:00.005-08:002022-01-02T08:27:55.775-08:00Happy...whatever....<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I had grand plans to do this end of year wrap up post then I just didn’t
which is kind of a fitting way to end 2021 actually. I am currently sitting at
my kitchen table writing this and watching mom juice about 75 Limequats which
are apparently what you get when you plant a lemon tree and a cumquat tree to
close together …or some BS like that. So that she will have juice for pies but
she can throw out the Limequats. PS they are very very tart so the Lemon is
strong in that quat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am also setting up my dad’s new Samsung phone (I’m a multi-tasker
afterall). A few months ago my father destroyed the back of his phone. Like destroyed
it. Little pieces of glass everywhere. We took it apart and tried to put a new
back on but it wouldn’t hold as the glue or tape on the back had lost its
sticky. So me and the engineer decided to take the back off and put superglue
on it and well it held but it wasn’t pretty. It was only a matter of time
before that failed so for Christmas I got him a new phone. I also got my mom a
new one so they now have the exact same phone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mom’s phone was different. She had the old Microsoft phone, maybe one
of the last phones still working. AT&T sent her a text saying yeah we aren’t
supporting that phone anymore so we are going to send you a free one. I was
like yeah right delete it mom it’s a scam. DON’T CLICK ON ANYTHING!!!!! …
amazing how many times I have to tell them that. Then a few weeks later we got
a letter … saying the same thing. No phone. A month or so later I called them
and after being on the phone for over an hour and the dude trying to sell me
everything under the sun we determined that in fact they were sending my mom a
phone and we should get an e-mail when it is shipped. Damned if we didn’t. They
sent it and it was the slowest piece of shit I’ve ever held in my hands. I knew
eventually that would get on her nerves. The box was in my bedroom but I hadn’t
wrapped it yet. One night as we watched yet another Cheesy Crimas movie it happened.
She announced to the room that she wasn’t going to have a phone, didn’t need a
phone and didn’t want a fucking phone for Christmas! I sat there through her
rant and the next day spent the morning setting up her phone (hence why I’m
setting up dads (you just did it after all)) then I went to give it to her and
while she was mad a hell and didn’t want to take it, she felt like it was too
expensive, she eventually did and I think is very happy that I did give her
one. It still frustrates her sometimes but I do think she likes it. I hope so
anyway. As an adult it’s rare I can give them Christmas presents they aren’t expecting
and neither saw that coming. It was a nice feeling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s currently 84 degrees outside on this New Year’s Eve which is just
stupid. The air outside is heavy with moisture and there’s a feeling of bad
weather in the air. I hope it holds off cause well I’m not sure why. I’m not
planning to go anywhere and I really feel like I’ll be asleep long before the
ball drops but it just seems strange going into the new year with tornados in
the air. Then again maybe that’s how 2021 should go out the door.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I’ve been sick the last week or so. Not Rona, I don’t think. I’m 98%
sure it was a sinus infection. I was all snotty and gross and congested. I
never did the RONA test, I just stayed home, worked from the house and am now
feeling much better. Tho my left nostril has some explaining to do. For some
reason it refuses to work but jokes on him I’ll just breathe through my mouth! I
never had a fever, never had a headache, lost sense of taste or smell, and never
really felt “bad” thus why I don’t think I had the RONA. Then again I’ve had
both my shots, I’ve had the booster, I wear the mask when in public and so if I
did get the RONA I was going to be mad as hell. However I also understand I’m very
likely to have had it, never really know it and spread it, hence my staying
home this past week. Several of my coworkers didn’t come back from Crimmus
cause they had tested positive or were in contact with others who tested positive
so next week at work should be … interesting. My partner in crime Golden has
also been battling sickness this past week, however as a medical marvel that’s
more the norm for her than the surprise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The reason for the year end post is that I realized not too long ago
that our little Blog turned 7 this past August … one day I’m going to actually
remember the birthday of this blog but alas this was not the year. I thought
well that’s not really a milestone age .. I mean it’s not like 5 or 10 it’s
just a 7 .. but to me that is a pretty big deal. For 7 years I’ve wasted your
time with drivel that fell out of my head and some of you read them all, some
of you didn’t and that’s ok ..the point is that despite my best efforts .. this
blog isn’t dead yet. That’s 250 blog posts (once this one goes live), some that were substantial, some
that were by Golden, and some that were just to say I posted something. Not surprisingly
that first year (2014) I had over 83 posts but that was also the year that I did
a post a day in November and with this thing being new and all it was fun and
interesting still. The second biggest year was 2019 which came after a year
with the lowest number of posts, also the year that really tried to take us down but didn't succeed. 2019 was my re-launch of this blog so to speak
and we haven’t looked back since. Sure, there are some months with one or no
posts but hey I did keep it going. This year we have had 10 posts, well 11 once
this one goes live.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>I</o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">’ve been thinking about how different life was 7 years ago. 7 years
ago … I had a boss that was literally sucking the professional life out of me,
to the point where I had started looking for a new job. I knew the grass always
seemed greener on the other side. I loved the company I worked for and most of
the people, but I was just done with her. HEAR THAT AMERICA IT’S NOT ALWAYS WE
DON’T WANNA WORK IT IS SOMETIMES WE DON’T WANT TO WORK FOR SPECIFIC PEOPLE!!!! Nothing
I did was good enough, and if I ever tried to step up and do more than expected
I was suddenly “out for her job.” I had gotten to the point where I took
everything that was personal out of my office. No pictures on the walls, no
sitting around fun stuff to show it was my office, even my candy dish (which always
bothered her cause A. she couldn’t stay out of it (somehow that was my fault)
and B. cause my coworkers would stop by and chat as they got a piece and never
stopped to chat with her). I wanted to be able to literally go down to HR say I’ve
had enough and quit. I didn’t expect her to let me work a 2 week notice and so
instead of her standing there watching me pack a box of my stuff I could grab
my purse and get the *uck out. My coworkers noticed I didn’t put anything up
for the holidays, they noticed the lack of personal stuff in my office and started trying to build me up, which frankly made her even madder. They were dark days for sure work wise. Now it's 7 years later, I just celebrated my 18th anniversary at the same job, I've got an amazing boss, I have been promoted twice and just celebrated my first year of being the manager of my department with my own staff. I have taken on more responsibility than I have ever had, and I love my job more today than I did back then, tho it often stresses me past the breaking point but that's on me not them. So, she can suck it! :D </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">However, I guess she can be credited with not only hiring the boss I currently have but also with this blog as the stress of the office was making me </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">not want to do anything outside of work either. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I was spending so much energy
in the week not cussing her out that by Friday I was mentally drained, and
Golden came up with a fantastic idea of starting this blog to refocus that
energy. I will always love her for that. I would give anything if could find
something similar for her. She’s made guest appearances on this blog from time
to time and frankly she is much better at this than I am. The way she tells a
story, the humor, the details, the drama. She uses worked like a pen in the way
that I only wish I could. She paints a story in someone’s head and damn I wish I
could do that. I’ve begged her to try her hand at writing a book, I think it would
be a best seller. I’m going to keep at her and keep striving to be more like
her in every aspect that I can.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">7 years ago, Golden was also in a place with her job where it was
taking the very soul out of her body. However, unlike me she was released and
found a new path and now she is in another job that she really likes but that
has taken everything she has to survive it during this pandemic. The crazy
thing is she is really good at this job, it’s just …. too much sometimes. Staff
shortages and overtime hours is starting to take a toll, but she’s survived it
and hasn’t murdered anyone and for that I’m both grateful and a little shocked.
See Golden is a 100% essential worker who works at a facility that runs 24
hours 7 days a week. As I mentioned previously Golden is a medical marvel and
needs the downtime that her current situation is just not supplying, I pray
that in 2022 she gets some rest, some peace and finds a balance between work and
not work. Heck even when off they call her more than she tweets which is a
problem. Even in her downtime she’s never too far away.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">SHUT up … as I was finishing this I got an alert that Betty White has
left us … damn you 2021 … but well played 2022 … don’t let that be on your
shoulders …….. damn ….. rest well Mrs. White we’ll take it from here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So, I’m ending this on that note …. See you guys on the other side…. I
hope.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy</span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-5711634088117571512021-12-02T05:53:00.005-08:002021-12-02T05:53:54.214-08:002021 Christmas Calendar <p>Goodness
gracious it feels like I just sent out the Halloween calendar … I mean doesn’t it?
Like how did we get here so quickly …. I guess the calendar has a tendency to
do that. Either way it’s time for some sappy Crimmus (as my Partner in Crime
spells it (<a href="@theonlygolden">Golden</a>) movies that are going to make you smile, cringe,
laugh, and in some cases cry. Either way there will be moisture involved so ..
have fun with that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So …
here you go …. I present to you the 2021 Christmas TV Schedule in all its
glory! Once again, the calendar is set up in 11X17 format in an effort to save
your eye balls. If you have to print it 8.5x11 it is readable but if you can
print it 11X17 your eyes will thank you, tho your IT guy might question why you
are suddenly out of ink at the office. I have also found that saving the PDF to
your favorite portable device is the best way to keep the calendar handy and as
an added bonus you can zoom in and out to read that ever so small type. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A
few highlights to discuss ….</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>AMC </b>is having their “Best Christmas Ever” which will feature
“popular Christmas and Family films along with other acquired specials”
whatever the heck that means. However, they are showing the Olsen Twins before
they got greasy hair in To Grandmother’s House We go and giving all the love to
National Lampoons Christmas Vacay so I’m going to let them pass on that. This
is where those of you without kiddos might want to land each night to avoid the
cartoon crimmus .. but I mean if you aren’t watching Claymation at Crimmus are
you even gonna get a visit from Santa … I think not.</li><li><b>ABC </b>is bringing the holiday fun with regular programing
having Christmas/Holiday themed episodes as well as specials (which is what
this calendar is about) including “The Magic Maker,” “A Very Boy Band Holiday,”
“Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade”; “CMA Country Christmas” and of
course kicking off 2022 with the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan
Seacrest 2022.</li><li><b>Freeform </b>is doing another 25 days of Christmas, after their
31 days lead up and after their 31 days of Halloween …. So I guess that’s just
what they do now. However Freeform is filled with a lot of fun stuff for the
kiddos and the adult kiddos will find some fun too, but not everything on their
schedule is what I’d call “crimmus” worthy. See Die Hard Fans I can pick and
choose what is Crimmus and what isn’t too.</li><li>There are now roughly 4,567 versions of <b>How the Grinch Stole
Christmas</b> (give or take) … God love you Dr. Seuss … it’s on TBS, Freeform, AMC,
NBC, USA, I mean it’s every freaking where! I used to try and flag the cartoon
vs Jim Carey vs the new animated one with Cumber-what’s-his-face (which is
actually really good almost better than the original but don’t tell Chuck Jones
and Boris Karloff I said that please) however it’s all too much. So, it’s on
the schedule … tune in … see which one and turn it off …. Or keep watching …
entirely up to you. I mean his heart is gonna grow no matter what you do cause
that’s what Grinches do … PS Spoiler alert … I guess I mean it’s been out since
1957, so I mean that’s on you.</li><li><b>Hallmark, Halmark Movies and Mysteries, and Lifetime</b> have
been cranking out the Christmas specials since like April and I get it … really
I do. It’s a simple formula that usually pays off, but know that if
I needed room on the calendar, these were the first to get kicked out. I did try
to add the “new” specials you know the ones that haven’t been seen a billion
times in the last week. Hallmark announced something like 41 new movies this
season and Lifetime added 50 “Holiday themed” specials” to their line up and
well … that’s just dumb. I will admit when you think about how these actors had
to pretend to be freezing in say 97 degree California or Canadian weather…so
well played actors.</li><li><b>Other options</b> include ION channel, UpTV, TCM, and Food
Network for your holiday fun. Not everyone gets all of these channels but if
you have them, they have some pretty fun looking shows coming up. I get them and
as I have said on numerous occasions … this is all about me … I just share the
love cause well … it’s the holidays and I want you all to be happy.</li><li>Lastly, we all know by now the fate of the <b>Peanuts </b>cartoons
…. <b>PBS </b>is showing these specials once … one time … they showed the Great
Pumpkin commercial free which I admit was nice. I am hoping for the same with
the Christmas special. So, plan your schedule around these showings cause well
it’s important. What has happened to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and Woodstock
is exactly what this calendar has tried to prevent. Streaming can’t take over …
it just can’t but it’s gonna and until it does, I’ll be here … wasting
everyone’s time and file space with these calendars.</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking
of streaming if you partake … here ya go … you are welcome!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.rd.com/list/christmas-movies-on-disney-plus/">28 Christmas
Movies on Disney Plus for 2021 | Best Family Films to Watch (rd.com)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/16-best-christmas-movies-2021-192800727.html">The
16 Best New Christmas Movies of 2021 (yahoo.com)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/most-festive-christmas-movies-stream-180000201.html">The
Most Festive Christmas Movies to Stream on Amazon Prime (yahoo.com)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://people.com/movies/christmas-movies-on-netflix/">Best Christmas
Movies Streaming on Netflix | PEOPLE.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.rd.com/list/christmas-movies-on-hulu/">25 Best Christmas
Movies on Hulu 2021 — Hulu Holiday Films (rd.com)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.tvguide.com/news/best-christmas-movies-to-watch-netflix-disney-plus-hbo-max-hulu-and-more/">The
Best Christmas Movies to Watch on Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, and More -
TV Guide</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>THE RULES </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>NO E-MAILS about taking Christ out of Christmas, it’s just a
really long word and using X-Mas allows for more shows on the already full
calendar.</li><ul><li>Thanks for your understanding.</li><ul><li>For those that don’t understand I’ll be glad to remove you
from the list just let me know.</li></ul></ul><li>I live in the central time zone, the times on this calendar
reflect that, adjust accordingly for those of you that have traveled as far and
wide as this calendar has. (PS What’s that like?!)</li><ul><li>Unless otherwise stated the times are PM</li><ul><li>Also, the times may vary (my TV provider could be wrong, the
website could be wrong, I might have screwed up the conversation from
Eastern/Central time zone cause numbers are not my friend and a really awesome
song distracted me) the point is … don’t call because you missed Clark finally
get those lights to work, that’s on you…I mean that movie comes on like 75
billion times … and I always catch the same 12 scenes every.single.time.</li></ul><li>Use your fancy devices and find out when it comes on again
and watch accordingly. I know you can do it. I have faith in you! Or ask your
kid to handle it for you, I have more faith in them to be honest.</li></ul><li>This calendar contains shows I want to see, so it includes a
mixture of adult themed shows/movies and kid themed shows/movies, cause let’s
face it I’m basically a little person in a big person body.</li><ul><li>PLEASE be mindful of what is on before you sit the kids down
with popcorn to watch</li><ul><li>It’s not that I don’t love your kids but I didn’t birth
them, they aren’t my mess and I don’t want to hear about it.</li><ul><li>You should have thought about that before you decided to
have kids. Just saying.</li><li>Seriously don’t be the one that every year calls cause of
this ….that’s how you get removed from next year’s list.</li><ul><li>It happens … every…damn…year!</li></ul></ul></ul></ul><li>Feel free to make your own calendar, which if you don’t
share with the world around you .. then you are just the worst.</li><ul><li>Seriously tho.. Love ya … but yeah the worst!</li></ul></ul><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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mean who doesn’t cry when George Bailey is standing next to the tree with Mary
holding little Zuzu and his friends are coming in to save the Bailey Savings
and Loan, oh no did I give the end away ?!) and have a GREAT Christmas season!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>PS </b>while I’m here cause I’m not doing a New Year's calendar (Halloween and Christmas are enough) …. Hallmark has developed some New Year's movies for 2022 (cause why not) here’s
what they are planning to offer, some frankly sound like they might be decent.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-33310916531966359232021-10-01T03:00:00.006-07:002021-10-17T09:24:59.366-07:00This is Halloween ...... <div style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> EDIT : Due to my awesomeness the powers that be have decided to air the Great Pumpkin on PBS Oct. 24th at 7:30 Eastern which is of course when most families are sitting down to watch TV not rushing home or preparing dinner. Sigh ... anyway you will have the opportunity to watch this beloved special but don't always count on that ..... </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A_Pq-7mGjL8UBGfrBgET1Vfz66UgmVjnvInzuPWWiEXeS5Mz2SDF8EE1g3mZ4x-JCiIPjE4PiclfUzrP0ef5bp1UFtMmscTybBEVC7e_VaCvZQIuMWE-4rg0jbfmqprXyL59Fr0JxhST/s367/Great+Pumpkin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A_Pq-7mGjL8UBGfrBgET1Vfz66UgmVjnvInzuPWWiEXeS5Mz2SDF8EE1g3mZ4x-JCiIPjE4PiclfUzrP0ef5bp1UFtMmscTybBEVC7e_VaCvZQIuMWE-4rg0jbfmqprXyL59Fr0JxhST/s320/Great+Pumpkin.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">n Now back to our originally scheduled shenanigans! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Attention fellow lovers
of Halloween TV fun …….let’s get some unpleasant business out of the way first
… In case you missed it last year, Peanuts anything has moved exclusively to
Apple TV + and thus you won’t find our beloved Great Pumpkin on this year’s calendar,
or I guess any future calendars. For the record I believe I’ve been predicting
this for over a decade so I’m not going to say I told you so but ……… I mean I totes
did. I was really hoping the powers that be would come to their senses and
realize what a missed opportunity this was but well if they had any senses we’d
have less “reboots” or “remakes” than we do flavors of Oreo’s. I was going to
bore you with my reboot rant but I’m going to spare you … this time! However
can we talk about how they will show say Friday the 13</span><sup style="text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> part 3, 4,
2, and then 1 ? Like that’s so messed up …. Or they will show Halloween 4 but
not Halloween. What’s up with that?!</span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> That being said I’m
kind of super excited about the </span><b style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">new Child Play SERIES “Chucky’ that will be
on Syfy this year starting October 12<sup>th</sup></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">. However, since that’s a
series and not a special it’s not on this calendar but should be, cause it
looks AWESOME! …wait …where was I … oh yeah, the move of Peanuts to Apple TV+ …
If you have it log on…..pull it up and enjoy … the rest of us will just grab
our DVDs while we still can. For you old schoolers your VHS might need to be
dusted off before you insert it but should still be good to go too. God love ya
if like me you are still rocking the old school VHS machine. I myself got me a
little VHS/DVD combo, when my former VCR died a horrible, horrible death after
eating my copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a super sad day for sure. Dad
still says was a waste of money. Who is laughing now Dad ?! well….me….I guess
….. just me, but I stand by my decision that day at the Best Buy to pay a
little extra for the luxury of being able to choose my format when watching
goodness on my TV instead of upgrading to that Blu-Ray fad. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So now that that’s
taken care of ……. I present to you the 2021 Halloween Calendar. It’s back guys!
I’m going to keep it going until the universe says we’ve had enough. Or until you guys stop asking about it … in
August.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">A few items of note
….</span></b><br /> </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">FreeForm is doing
31 nights of Halloween –</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> this is
the place that your littles will need to land but note that just cause it’s on
this channel this time of year does not mean it’s “Halloween” fun and what’s
with their new alignment with Fox that allows them to show not only the
Simpsons but now Family Guy as well? I do admit that at some point FreeForm
tried to take over the calendar but I think I held them at bay … somewhat but
good try FreeForm.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">SYFY is also doing
31 days of Halloween –</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <b>That’s</b>
the place to go for some fun, gory, good times!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">AMC Fear Fest
begins October 1<sup>st</sup> –</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Classics are all over the place here with some walking dead sprinkled
around for flavor. Tune in to see Pet Sematary, The Shining, Scream, all the
Final Destinations, and of course the OG …. Michael Meyers in Halloween.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror XXXII airs on FOX on Oct. 10<sup>th</sup></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. It’s Must See TV. This year’s special
will be 5 segments instead of the usual three.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">TCM </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">is trying to get back on my calendars by
throwing a <b>Halloween Marathon</b> starting <b>October 29<sup>th</sup> at 7
through October 31<sup>st</sup></b>. That’s 32 classic movies guys ….<b> </b> Spooky, creepy, horrifying, and humorous over
the course of 48 hours. This includes movies starring the likes of Vincent
Price, Linda Blair, and even Mel Books in Young Frankenstein, a MUST see if you
haven’t seen it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Food Network</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> is still in the corner cause like last
year they started most of their programing in the middle of September (cause
that’s when I want to get my Halloween Wars on of course). They slightly redeem
themselves by bringing back “<b>Outrageous Pumpkins</b>” with Alyson Hannigan starting
Oct. 3<sup>rd</sup> and airing every Sunday at 9 and <b>Kids Baking
Championship “Oh My Gourd!</b>” (Seriously get in the corner Food Network and
likely make a nest you are going to be there for a while). KBC OMG (which is
truly what they are calling it btw) will air Monday at 7 starting Oct. 18<sup>th</sup>.
I’m not even going to rant about the fact that Halloween Wars removed the
“pumpkin” aspect of the show and how the host is only appearing via prerecorded
videos .. I mean just cancel the damn thing already and put it out of its
misery.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There is also
exciting news on the “streaming” front …… <b><span style="color: #c45911; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Disney+</span></b> will have a new
“Lego Star Wars” called “Terrifying Tales” or something like that but the real
exciting news is that they will be debuting the “<b>Muppets Haunted Mansion</b>”
on <b>Oct 8th</b>. <b><span style="color: #c45911; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Peacock will be showing the brand-new Halloween Movie
“Halloween Kills” starting Oct. 15<sup>th</sup></span></b><span style="color: #c45911; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span>will
Jamie finally kill him or nah … my guess is nah but I’m thankful for Universal
and Peacock for making this happen. Peacock will also air a “Snoop and Martha’s
Very Tasty Halloween” starting Oct. 14<sup>th</sup> and if that’s not worth
getting Peacock well nothing is. Peacock is free yall …. Go get it ! <b><span style="color: #c45911; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Hulu</span></b>
is having a <b>Huluween</b> (seriously can’t make this stuff up) with a special
Halloween section featuring both classic movies and “Halloween episodes” of
favorite shows. ! <b><span style="color: #c45911; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Netflix</span></b> has some new “specials” as well such as
Sharkdog’s Fintastic Halloween, Escape the Undertaker, Scaredy Cats, and
Nightbooks. <i>All kinds of good stuff on Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Disney+,
Peacock and *cough* AppleTV+ this year … plus some amazing classics so check em
out.</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Hallmark</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> – Hallmark is doing some “Fall Harvest”
thing with some “new” movies so I threw them on the calendar if only cause
Freeform was taking over. Might be a good fall alternative to gruesome and
scary, or a mind-numbing bore to fall asleep to after a stressful workday. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As this is the 12th
(give or take) year of doing this …. I’m not going to bore you with the rules
…. Just know ….. If your kid is easily skittish and couldn’t sleep after
watching say Texas Chainsaw Massacre don’t blame me … as some have done in the
past, it’s not my problem. I’m in the Central time zone, if you aren’t then
adjust accordingly. Check your own listings as yes sometimes I make mistakes
and conversion from Eastern Time Zone is hard yall.<br /> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The intention of
this calendar is to get your family to pause and
spend some time together making memories. Maybe carve a pumpkin while watching,
create some fantastic Halloween Treats from your various Social Media sites, or
work on your costume – don’t forget the props - and RELAX with your family,
friends and loved ones (sometimes those overlap). This years must see special
will be next year’s Peanuts only available via streaming if we aren’t careful
….. so, let’s not let that happen again. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <b>**NOTE **</b> if you save the image below it will not be cut off, but if I share it as "normal" it makes it really small and basically unreadable. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRMXwFWBM0Stj8GIZ7z_5w0nLcMsBasHb3NAL7Ex1z3fMsXKIIrrSzBidVwhUnjDLsnapiqEXhaKENSjk3_uvLz7Ufnd7407ApZuP2SICP_l2fn3ZqZT4h9ZMNXtSsUcRb2kQui6PrjF4/s2048/Halloween+2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1325" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRMXwFWBM0Stj8GIZ7z_5w0nLcMsBasHb3NAL7Ex1z3fMsXKIIrrSzBidVwhUnjDLsnapiqEXhaKENSjk3_uvLz7Ufnd7407ApZuP2SICP_l2fn3ZqZT4h9ZMNXtSsUcRb2kQui6PrjF4/s16000/Halloween+2021.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So, sit back, scare
yourself, and have a GREAT Halloween! It’s fall people enjoy it!<br /> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy </span></div><p class="MsoNormal">
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Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347070369177822619.post-72412456324253473892021-08-28T17:43:00.005-07:002021-08-28T17:44:12.976-07:00Paralympics … and DRAGON CON Anxiety<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhww47aLHn2sOirOBztmbO702L7z1ub5mCBey4xsL8n4Ii0WArGcMt-HO2KmolUL2QOZHSI09o2_N9HWttvkvbHu5n5K1nbIuZxZiXNRFIks6Y0rTYGut00ZlWjAB6baxHYxhkXKAsfXsvs/s711/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhww47aLHn2sOirOBztmbO702L7z1ub5mCBey4xsL8n4Ii0WArGcMt-HO2KmolUL2QOZHSI09o2_N9HWttvkvbHu5n5K1nbIuZxZiXNRFIks6Y0rTYGut00ZlWjAB6baxHYxhkXKAsfXsvs/s320/OIP.jpg" width="213" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-94vsF8YmnvVkdzZY2rJT1uul7HzzyfQKk2vsNKumC38yxZGYwoZvytR_0UsubXJ-gRWIJ-7C2RjytfMyskOuF5GWYE_IAm2Dq3Qb9hDho-rs-5RicnCOH8Jr7_cZNC1JaV7v3q4AREqA/s400/dragon+con.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-94vsF8YmnvVkdzZY2rJT1uul7HzzyfQKk2vsNKumC38yxZGYwoZvytR_0UsubXJ-gRWIJ-7C2RjytfMyskOuF5GWYE_IAm2Dq3Qb9hDho-rs-5RicnCOH8Jr7_cZNC1JaV7v3q4AREqA/s320/dragon+con.png" width="320" /></a><br /><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>S</o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">o we are now on I think day 5 of the Paralympic Games (nearly at the half
way point) and while I haven’t posted a blog about it I’ve definitely been
watching it. It hasn’t gotten the love that the Olympics get but the coverage I
have been able to watch in my opinion has been BETTER. Instead of the never-ending
tape delayed wall to wall coverage …… NBCSN and the Olympic channel are
breaking out blocks of LIVE events which has been awesome to watch. Granted
most of it takes place after I go to bed (time zones are hard :D) but I have
been able to watch some Wheelchair Rugby, Wheelchair Basketball, Triathlon,
track and field, swimming events and even some ping pong what has however eluded
me is Sitting Volleyball. I love everything about watching that sport. The sportsman
ship between the teams, the power that these athletes hit the ball without ever
leaving the ground, and just volleyball in general. I had the pleasure of
playing this in high school at a fundraising event and let me tell you all …. It’s
hard. As an Abled Bodied person you want to jump up, you want to get the lift
you need to hit that spike but you… well can’t. That’s against the rules. What I’ve
been doing is recording the coverage so I’m not missing anything, but I have
yet to catch this but that’s my goal for the next few days. Watching these games has made me really really miss Invictus Games ... but they will be back next year. It's been fun seeing some familiar faces representing their country. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigkkPJQuKndpi5V1v2Pf9KyC3zFAAPA5awexXSNS5MM5fxnz3oolOM_nk20UHGPh1hAWVb-21QZocpBWMmRpj6llTxH04zAOpIK0mZq4UGdH0apJ_oW6tZzJ_fayqctxWfmXx1pABl-WL5/s1000/1000w_q95.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1000" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigkkPJQuKndpi5V1v2Pf9KyC3zFAAPA5awexXSNS5MM5fxnz3oolOM_nk20UHGPh1hAWVb-21QZocpBWMmRpj6llTxH04zAOpIK0mZq4UGdH0apJ_oW6tZzJ_fayqctxWfmXx1pABl-WL5/s320/1000w_q95.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Why the next few days when there are several days left in the games?!
Cause this Wed I pack up the car and head north to Golden’s for our yearly
Nerdcation. Dragon Con is gonna be super different this year but I also think
way more awesome. For one the crowds will be down with limited attendees which
is always a good thing. I remember when Golden and I first started going the
crowds were nothing like they were in 2019 which it was just too much. Too many
people, too many cosplayers, too many idiots destroying things (sorry Fed Ex
display), too much drinking, it was all just too much. We still had fun and
enjoyed ourselves but it felt very suffocating at times and the idea of a “smaller”
con makes my soul very happy.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEUaQFOObTCwUiAXZ6rj2t0HTAA3JeuJjqzh8gP7Z_LGPs7mX3UnOQ3sdGt8mDlcICNJC1_D227-UiUdVRgg6NGBA4DpCw7J1eXNjUderiHTazXwO0JMlk571EvGCbJ0aApps84Ow6SeUG/s800/pic382f1db10886485e9f17a1faf72f3cdb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEUaQFOObTCwUiAXZ6rj2t0HTAA3JeuJjqzh8gP7Z_LGPs7mX3UnOQ3sdGt8mDlcICNJC1_D227-UiUdVRgg6NGBA4DpCw7J1eXNjUderiHTazXwO0JMlk571EvGCbJ0aApps84Ow6SeUG/s320/pic382f1db10886485e9f17a1faf72f3cdb.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">For two everyone that comes to the Con this year has to either be vaccinated
or show a negative test before they can pick up their badge. After watching
people lose their minds over this “rule” I’m glad it is in place. So many who
were planning to come have dropped out, but what it really means is that the
people that are at Dragon Con really really wanted to be there. That means that
everyone there will be in good moods and great spirits even if they are
drinking all the spirits. Ha! Photo from above is from several years ago. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">For three ….. for the first time in forever …. We are staying in a
HOST hotel. We were scheduled to be in a host hotel back in 2019 when the
Sheraton had to close for the Legionnaires Disease outbreak … and we got kicked
out of the hotel (I’ll never believe that it wasn’t cause of that but whatever).
We scrambled at the last minute and found a room at another hotel we’ve stayed
at before and it was fine but we were bummed. Then in 2020 I scrambled and made
it happen again and a pandemic threw us to the floor. However the hotel moved
our room to this year and I have been checking it daily in fear that it may
happen again. I have called them several times to make sure that we are good. I’m
sure when we check in they will give me that look like oh it’s her. I don’t care
how they look at me as long as they give me a room. Ha! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And most important Golden and I really really really really need 4
days of laughter, fun, doing nothing unless we wanna, and food. It’s 4 days of
doing literally whatever we want, when we want, and how we want. Being in a
host hotel will cut down on travel back to the hotel so I’m hoping it will also
allow us to do more. We usually head out in the morning walk to the hotels or
get on the bus and frolic until late in the afternoon. Sometimes we go back to
the room to rest up for night activities but sometimes that kills us for the
day. We end up taking naps and getting settled and often talk ourselves of
going back out. This also allows Golden to head our at night when I’m snoring
away and her Medical Marvel Team No Sleep member can’t sleep. We will have to
come up with a system for that tho so I’ll know she’s ok. I’m also hoping that
by being where we are we can run up to the room and chill then come back out
when things start to become too much.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k2yYLOK1d0osNHhQ_UGaW10jQ0GR9X9vGzQzUA6dZLDK7mODGjqVK0vtct5_6EIL_-u2il_hVSqHWujSMxyQwArGeQpEK_gwoOy1K4Wth02ovZevDqnjA5vA9on5pO8tyVsMiFpVThR5/s650/Dragon-Con-shirt-Social-Graphic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k2yYLOK1d0osNHhQ_UGaW10jQ0GR9X9vGzQzUA6dZLDK7mODGjqVK0vtct5_6EIL_-u2il_hVSqHWujSMxyQwArGeQpEK_gwoOy1K4Wth02ovZevDqnjA5vA9on5pO8tyVsMiFpVThR5/s320/Dragon-Con-shirt-Social-Graphic.jpg" width="295" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I am planning to attempt to give blood again. Mostly cause I know that
blood is super important right now but also cause the T-shirt they are giving
away is worth possibly passing out again. See several years ago I gave blood
then I don’t know what happened. We were waiting on the buss to take us back to
the room and I was kind of our of it. I stood up thinking the buss was coming
and looked around …. I guess I stood up to fast and …. I passed out. I woke up
a few minutes later with full on road rash all over my face, my glasses somewhere
on the sidewalk and Golden telling me to stay down. See we were at the top of a
really steep hill and her fear was that if I started rolling she wasn’t going
to be able to stop me and I’d Indian Jones the City of Atlanta.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQrE5O9WbF8nRxYIzMZJ-cgbaaVx_TjM2Rk7zj3V-TklA42w3Ks17lKPUXpxP-LElQRCtPS6F64fdLkC_uS3p-l1bIKh4ei6NGoGKaXH5LWSeddz_jh7rBTYVoRtiLfNCwagV-sdS3cuc/s1231/the+incident.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1231" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQrE5O9WbF8nRxYIzMZJ-cgbaaVx_TjM2Rk7zj3V-TklA42w3Ks17lKPUXpxP-LElQRCtPS6F64fdLkC_uS3p-l1bIKh4ei6NGoGKaXH5LWSeddz_jh7rBTYVoRtiLfNCwagV-sdS3cuc/s320/the+incident.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The best part of that story is that Golden, Maribel, and I kept
tweeting each other about the incident. Earlier in the day Maribel had falling
and hurt herself and Golden had just taken her injection so we were all
complaining about our ailments. When I got back into town I immediately went to
the eye glass place cause my glasses were really jacked up and scratched beyond
use. I was hoping to get new glasses before I had to go back to work. However,
it didn’t work out for me. So I went back to the office and the road rash was
still on my face but my lip was not as swollen. My boss sits down in my office and
he is just smiling and said so…did you have fun. I said of course. he said …really
? and he has this cat ate the canary grin on his face. I said well there was
one thing and I started telling him about the BP thing … at the time he was
super concerned about my BP cause our office used to do blood drives every quarter
and the quarter before they wouldn’t do mine cause it was far too high. The whole
time I’m telling the story he’s just sitting there smiling. I finished the story
knowing it would only make him worry more and he said “you forgot I followed
you on Twitter huh?!” so he already knew what had happened he just wanted to
see if I’d tell him or not. Well played sir.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRfQKasgpX6ygTBuGG2qV3Nd3RGCw5byjVbWFoaKrO2u-h0cuwg6FdyVg8hZ5m0ia_Eahqr288mmxXATFP1CHOjg_y2Tz-Hd999C_JvRzsc6qBtVQR4ZHlZ9cZvjMoLs81Eb2xnXEZYJuA/s2048/WP_20160904_14_54_26_Rich.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1151" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRfQKasgpX6ygTBuGG2qV3Nd3RGCw5byjVbWFoaKrO2u-h0cuwg6FdyVg8hZ5m0ia_Eahqr288mmxXATFP1CHOjg_y2Tz-Hd999C_JvRzsc6qBtVQR4ZHlZ9cZvjMoLs81Eb2xnXEZYJuA/s320/WP_20160904_14_54_26_Rich.jpg" width="180" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’m hoping giving blood this year won’t be quite as interesting. I’m
schedule to give it on Friday morning so I can get up get some breakfast head
over and give blood then if I start feeling weird head to the room for a bit before
going back down. I have a plan :D</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a little geeked out about going to the Con during a pandemic but I
really feel like the organizers are making every effort to keep everyone safe.
Vaccinations/Negative tests, masks mandatory for all, and they are having multiple
“cleaning” events during the day and night. Granted the risk is still there but
I feel like this is going to be the cleanest con I’ve ever attended. I feel
like I did back when I went to my <a href="https://saywhatmg.blogspot.com/2020/11/rona-you-scary.html">nephew’s state championship</a> … if I’m going to
go I’m going to make the best of it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I have a hotel reserved for if I get
anything I can stay there and mom and dad will stay safe. I have also learned over the last year or so that you can justify in your head anything that you really want to do. I also bought 2 over
the counter tests that I can take so I’ll know if I have it or not. I’m packing
hand sanitizer like it’s free and doing all the precautions that I have been
told will “keep me safe” and I’m just going to pray that it does. I’ve been
very lucky during this pandemic …. And I’d like to keep that streak going. That
being said if I make it though it without catching anything … I’m totes going
to start licking doorknobs. Just kidding that’s a horrible idea …. Almost as bad
as this milk crate thing and also where are you all getting so many milk
crates!?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Marcy (who is procrastinating packing by writing this up) <o:p></o:p></span></p>Say What MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09005722503382933889noreply@blogger.com0