August 1972

Where were you in August 1972 and what were you doing? I was living in Buffalo Grove, IL. Yes, I used to live in a town by that name. I know one thing for sure, I was listening to this on the radio..

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Other things I remember about that year...

I was finishing up my sophomore year of high school and started my junior year.

I was going to Adlai Stevenson High School in Libertyville, IL.

I turned 16 in August and got my drivers licence.

I also got to turn in my ugly thick glasses for contacts. No one recognized me at the beginning of the new school year!

A few items making news:

Jane Fonda made an antiwar broadcast from a hotel room in Hanoi on August 22.

The 1972 Summer Olympics opened on August 26th in Munich, West Germany and turned terrible on September 5th and 6th with the Munich Massacre.

Moral Behavior and feeling no remorse.

Why are liers believed by some, feared by others and uaually never feel any remorse for the lies that they tell? I found an interesting article about this. You can find it here...

A USC study has found the first proof of structural brain abnormalities in people who habitually lie, cheat and manipulate others. While previous research has shown that there is heightened activity in the prefrontal cortex – the area of the brain that enables most people to feel remorse or learn moral behavior – when normal people lie, this is the first study to provide evidence of structural differences in that area among pathological liars.

The part about "moral behavior" is what caught my eye. Yes, I believe that anyone who tells any lie for any reason has no moral behavior, zip..no..zero. That's why they can tell lies and then just keep on going and before too long...their whole life is a one big fat lie. Interesting concept.

I will be posting tons of new pics soon.

Thank you!

Thank you GB for keeping all Americans safe for the last 8 years. We may have continued on with our lives like nothing happened, but I know that you did not. Our safety was your greatest concern and thank God you did a great job.

To BO - please continue to keep all Americans safe during the next 4 years.

Thanks,
Kim

No time for blogging...having too much fun on FaceBook!

Just wanted post a really cool link about the weather on Inauguration Day. It has some cool information on it. Go to my office homepage and then click on the link with the flag.

My office:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/

Have great day!!

Update

I can't keep up with my blog while I am having such a wonderful relaxing vacation with MSH. So I will try to compose a long rambling post about all the events of the last few weeks. Which by the way have been amazing. I will start with the present and work my way backwards or maybe not. Maybe I will just ramble and post as the thoughts come to my head!

Today we spent the day with my parents. It was fun and we had our world famous BBQ Shrimp. We have been having this meal for as long as I can remember and it is wonderful each time. My Mom and I also got in a little shopping time and some beading done. I just love my crafts! It's a good thing that I only have two of them.

We had a blast at our New Year's Eve party last night. It was fun and I learned how to play Texas Holdem. We were almost going to babysit the sweetest granddaughter in the world and that did not work out. Which is for the best because we would never had been able to have so much fun if we had been watching her. It would have been fun in a different way...which would have been at home playing with her. God works in mysterious ways and this time it worked out perfectly for us! Thank goodness we did not have to stay at home with nothing to do or no one to hang out with!

The gambling last night was so much fun. I can't imagine myself playing very much because there are tons of things I would rather be doing. I can see how every once in a while it would be fun to get a group of friends together and play, so I am glad I learned.

I am so glad I have gotten to spend the last two weeks hanging out with MSH. It has been wonderful. We have spent every single minute together and I can not say it enough...it was been perfect.

I have recovered from my surgery so fast. It hardly seems like I had surgery at all. I am so thankful that everything went so well.

I have ordered my last order of clothes from my favorite retailer for at least four months. That was the deal I made with MSH. I know it sounds silly, buy I felt like I needed to make some kind of promise to him, since he was letting me order so many things from the big sale they are having right now. As usual, he is so sweet to me!

We loved going to Austin last weekend and helping CDM1 out. I thought it would be nice to make some food for him and also MSH helped him out with a few home repairs.

We have made a few New Year's promises to ourselves. One is that we are going to read from the Bible every night between 8:30pm and 9:00pm. No matter what our schedules are we are going to do this each night. MSH bought a new Bible with one of his gift cards that he got for Christmas. We are also making the commitment to each other to have a better prayer life together. I have so much to learn from MSH and he is such a great example to me.

Well it's that time of the year again for the Houston Boat Show. I am working the next two weekends. I keep reminding myself that I hopefully only have three more Boat Shows to work.

It's nice to have CDM2 home from her trip.

Tomorrow we are going to finally take down our Christmas decorations.

Life is too sweet!

Please say a special prayer for my former sister in law, she has cancer and will soon go home and have Hospice care there. She is my age and a very loved member of her family. (I think she was always the favorite Aunt among all the kids!!) This is a sad time for her family. Please pray for her comfort and to be pain free. Also pray for her husband and kids.

Whew...

Everything is done. We are settled in for the holidays and we do not have much else planned. All of our plans have come to pass and we can finally relax. Thank goodness!

I had surgery today and am recovering very nicely. Maybe it's just the pain medication hiding the pain and I will be surprised tomorrow when I wake up and see how sore I really am.

This has turned out to be a wonderful holiday time for us. Well except for the mishap CDM1 had last weekend. More on that later. We have enjoyed so many good times with family and friends. We have worked ourselves until we were so tired we could hardly move, but it was worth it. We have been very blessed with wonderful family and great friends.

We had a nice dinner with MSH's kids last weekend. We really enjoyed ourselves and I think everything turned out great. We have had so many blessings this holiday season, I can hardly believe it. God has truly been wonderful to us this past year and we are very thankful. Life could not get that much sweeter for us!

Now for CDM's accident last weekend, it has derailed our plans for today and tomorrow, hopefully he will be able to make it over here in the morning. If not, it will be the first Christmas we have not been together since he was born. I just hope his injury heals fast and he is up and around very quickly.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a very blessed New Year!

Words to live by...

Philippians 2:4 (The Message)

1-4 If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care — then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

I love this passage. To me it tells you exactly how to live your life. If everyone lived like this, then this world be a much happier place.

I see and hear about so many people who only think of themselves. They are number one in their lives and there is no room for anyone else. They let everyone else and everything else fall in behind them. These people are incapable of putting themselves aside and thinking of others first. They would never think of helping someone else out. Especially if it meant helping someone get ahead. There always has to be something “in it for them”. People who live their lives like that are not very pleasant to be around. They take...take...take and never give anything. It’s pitiful to watch them and I feel sorry for them. The only way they can have a relationship is to bully people into being around them or to enable those who need enabled.

I wish that everyone in the world could be happy, completely and totally happy. I think that first you have to love yourself and then you can love others enough to put them first in your life. If you do not love yourself, then you are constantly trying to fill that void and it's usually with negitive things.

I wish that everyone would read the Bible and take it's words to heart. They are great words to live by.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....

Well Blog Fan, since the last time I posted alot has happen. Starting with our wonderfully weird December snow last Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon, we were wearing sandles here in our part of the state. Then Tuesday evening, a cold front came through and it continued to get colder and colder. Around 3:30pm on Wednesday it started snowing!!

Here are a few pictures:

It was beautiful. Short lived but every minute of it was beautiful. (just like my life, I know gag, but it's true!)


We were invited to a really nice party on Friday night at a good friend's house. She has recently under gone surgery for cancer and was not up to cooking her usual wonderful dinner. Everyone pitched in and brought a dish and it turned out great. Everyone had a great time.


Saturday night we had our annual Pregressive Dinner at church. We signed up to host appetizers. We had 15 people and it turned out really great. I only had four types of appetizers and there was hardly anything left over! It was great to get to visit with everyone and see some people we have not seen in a while. For dinner we got to go have a wonderful dinner and let me tell you, I am glad I hardly ate anything at my house, so I was able to eat at the other Kim's house! After dinner everyone met back at the church building and as usual the gift exchange was so funny. This year we had two "hosts" and they were a scream. We had a great time and I ended up with a beautiful stained glass heart and MSH ended up with a wonderful (insert a loud laugh) electric hot dog cooker that looks like a radio. Nice! I know what we will be re-gifting soon.


Sunday we got up and went to church and then went to a birthday party for a friend who will be 98 on December 24! (yes she has the same birthday as MSH) After that we went to my office party. Then we went home and fell in to bed we were so tired. It was a wonderful tired.


This week is going to be much calmer. Thank goodness!

Told you so...

The price of gas is going down down down!

Here are some pictures from our corner gas stations:

The no name station: (Could you tell that by the sign?)And this is were we buy gas:
And here is a really cool picture of my dashboard: (consider your self blessed that you got to see my dashboard)

We had a great weekend packed with many activities. Some were fun and some were not. But, anything with MSH means it was a good time. This coming weekend we will be super busy. We have four parties to go to. One is at our house, so we will also have alittle house work to do.

How do you find your inner beauty? Do you have enough self esteem to actually find beauty within yourself or do you base how you feel about yourself on your relationships with others?

Almost...

The price of gas at our local stations is down to $1.51!!! Maybe by the end of the week it will be below $1.50. Then I can start the countdown for it to be under $1.00. Whoohoo...life is grand!

Our Thanksgiving was wonderful. I can not say enough about how much I enjoyed it. We had fourteen people and everything turned out so well. The food was great and everyone helped out by bringing something. Our lives are so full of good family and good friends and I am thankful for both.

We missed CDM2 on Thanksgiving, she had to work and then made dinner for her boyfriend and his family. Maybe we will get to see her next year!

CDM1 came a few days early to help out. We enjoyed his company so much. That kids is so stinkin funny! I can't wait to visit him at his house over Christmas vacation. We are going to help him do some work around his house. Hopefully we can help him get alot done while we are there. I am really looking forward to that!!

We got up early Friday and drove to Abilene. MSH "needed" to do some more deer hunting! He shot his second deer on Saturday morning. I am so gald that MSH and my brother get along so well and that they have common interest.

I have been put on "buying meat probation", I am not allowed to buy anymore meat unless it's under about $.50 a pound. Which will never happen. Apparently when MSH went to clean out the deep freezer to make room for all the deer meat, he found a ton of meat. I guess when I go look in the deep freezer, I open the lid, look around and shut the lid and the next day I go to the store and buy all the meat that is on special that week!

So, I will admit I am usually the last to know the latest trends and things that are popular. Today at work two of the guys were talking about ordering these, I must have had a blank look on my face, because one of them said "she has no idea what we are talking about". Well as soon as they left, I did a google search. Within 20 minutes I had ordered some. They will make a great Christmas present for our sweet granddaughter! I ordered the monkey, duck, cow and chicken! I can't wait to play with them. With the sweet granddaughter, of course!

We have so many plans over the next four weeks. I feel so blessed this holiday season. MSH and I are in such a great place. We have setteled into our married life so wonderfully and every thing is so perfect. We could not have written a better story for each of us. There is not much we would change at this point.

More later!

Just maybe...

the price of gas will continue to fall. A few months ago I would have never though that gas prices would be under $1.50. We have been watching the prices fall for a while now. I was hoping that they would fall get under $1.50. The small station by our house is $1.53 and the station were we buy our gas is down to $1.55. Now I will wait and see if the price goes under $1.00. Who would ever have thought that the price would get that low again?

I will post more later about our weekend. As usual it was wonderful!!

F.I.N.A.L.L.Y...

Bauer Power is back!

They are offering a two hour movie this Sunday

to get us back in the mood for my favorite show.

I can't wait!!

In other news, everything is going great as usual!!

Ha..Ha..Wink..Wink..Barf..Barf.

The End!

Video Games

Everyone who knows me knows my view point on playing video games. I have always thought that they were a complete waste of time and waste of the mind. I will admit that back in 1982 I went out and bought an Atari. I liked playing a couple of the games. I still like playing a couple of video games, such as Bejeweled. But my situation back then, was that I worked all day and came home to take care of my two year old son. He went to bed around 7:30 pm and then I was alone for the rest of the evening. I enjoyed the Atari when I was alone. That was my first and last video game system that I purchased for the home. As my son was growing up all the kids had a Nintendo. I did not want to buy him one or even let him play it. He saved up his money and bought his own system and the rest is history. He has NEVER stopped playing video games and now gets paid for playing them! That’s fine with me! He has done great and I am very proud of him.

I think video games are for young people or people who do not have a life. I can’t imagine myself or anyone I know that’s around my age sitting around playing video games all the time. I would have never sat around playing the games when my kids were growing up because I was busy taking care of them and working. I felt like it would have been selfish of me to sit around playing video games all the time, when there was so much other stuff to do.

I will admit I am a semi crafty person. I have done a few different crafts over the years. I like them because they are productive. You have something to show for your work at the end of the day. You have something to give away to family and friends. If you sit around playing video games all day, what do you have at the end of the day? Maybe you got to the next level in your game, but who really cares abut that?

I just read a news story about an online game called “Second Live” and married couple who met because of their shared interest in the game. They got married and are now getting divorced because she is accusing him of having an "virtual affair" with a female character in the role-playing game. Oh my goodness!! Talk about just plain crazy!

One final thought on playing video games...my son tells me that we used to tell him all the time “stop playing video games, it will get you no where”, and look where he is today. Playing video games as a part of his job!! So in his case, playing video games actually got him somewhre!

Where has sitting around playing video games gotten you? Except in a very few, very rare cases, I think that video games are for people who are social losers. Seriously!!

Well that’s enough on my views of playing video games. Next time I might share my thoughts on treating others as you want to be treated and those who are too blind to see what their actions are doing to other. But that’s a whole other post for another day!

The Russians

I think the Russians have taken over our satellite service or at least intercepted the signal to the satellite. We are playing show that have been DVRed and other shows are breaking in. It's very weird.

How could over 900 people be brain washed into killing themselves 30 years ago today. I heard that they had trial runs on "pretending" to take the poison and they never knew if they were taking the "real" poison or not. How can one man have so much power over so many people. He must have been a very good speaker and charismatic. Hummm it kind of reminds of someone in the news now. Watch out America.

I search all over my area for Tyler candles. I can't find anyone who carries them now. The weird thing is that I looked in the phone book and wrote down five different gift shops near my work and then was going to call them to see if they carried the candles. All of the gift shops were out of business. The never effects of a hurricane are far reaching and seem to be never ending. I am meeting with the first roofer tomorrow. He is the only one to return my call. We are not going with a "storm chaser" company. We are going with a company who has been in the area for years and is listed with the BBB. Smart move when we get another hurricane next year or even a rain strom this year!

I have wait almost 18 months to watch a new episode of "24" and finally this Sunday I can. There is a two hour special on. I CAN NOT WAIT!!!

I am really really looking forward to Thanksgiving. It will be so nice to have so many family and friends over for the day.

Our deer is ready. I am super excited. Well maybe just for the car trip, so I can crochet for 14 hours!!