What you think does matter

Is God really texting me? I Picked my duaghter up from school today. It was a very interesting ride home. First thing she did was complain that "She" was starving and she just had to eat something. Ofcourse it has to be healthy [ I wanted chinese but no... ] , so Subway was the place to go [ or atleast she was making me go to ]. Lunch was good, healthy. We talked about how she got her "weirdness" from me and her crazy side from her mom, ofcourse she disagreed being crazy like her Mom... Lol atleast we agree Mom is crazy.] So as we rode home after our healthy meal at Subways, she begins to Tell me about this prank that she was a part of on Sean (Sean, shawn how ever you spell his name ) is her freind, her special freind... I try real hard not to acknowledge him as her boy .... freind. I am a her dad after all and I still see her as my little girl. But back to the prank. Personally I think it was a great idea and I wished I had thought of it myself. So as sh...

People like to say that teachers do not do enough for thier students. That the failing grade our schools are getting is becuase they [ teachers ] are not doing everything they can to help our children learn. Well, I am very envolved in the school system and I see what happens first hand. I see the teachers who do the minimum and I see the teachers who go all out. I watched a school have their annual "Literacy Week" program. I watched as they encouraged kids to read, how they pushed them to do more. How children were excited about this week - "I love this book and I am going to dress up as my favorite character this friday" I was told by this one little girl. Friday came and a large group of children came to school ready to show off their costume, ready to proudly walk the halls dressed as their favorite reading book character. I also saw teachers who were dressed up as some of the characters they have been reading about to their students. Not ashamed, but proud tea...

Oh, the internet is filled with so much wonder - but most times I just need a good luagh. So what do I do - I search the image section of Googles extensive search engine to see what i can find. Most often times, I find junk, perversion and what not... The internet is filled with horndogs. But ocassionally I find some very funny images, pics and jokes that I thought I would share with you. After all the internet is a big place and who knows if I will ever find these pics again. So save them I do to past them here [ sound like Yoda from star wars - "save them I do". So take a look, have a luagh and tell me what you think?

Ok, I've been very, very - did I say very? Well, I have been very busy and I am trying to catch up on my blogging. Much of my blog past are about my family, the funny things they do [ or what I consider funny - wife does not get my humor... ]. But all in all I create art [ you call it comics ], I write about the kids and sometimes about serious thing and occassionally I rant about politics [ don't get me started. But this post is going to be about my baby girl. You see, my kid and her friends do some very strange things. I remember once asking her what she was doing on the house phone. Apparently all her friends wanted to figure out how many people could they get on one call - so each friend did a three way call with some one else and she proudly exclaimed: "Dad, we're up to 20 people on one call - this is cool!" .. I cut that short. Another time I found her and her friends trying to see how many people could answer [ comment ] on someones page. She told me they w...

Have you noticed, when ever you go on a diet -your taste are not as picky as when you are free to eat what ever you want. I took a short break from my UHmmm healthy eating habbits and now I am back on again, you know, watching what I eat, how much I eat and so forth. But I was thinking about the super bowl, the food we are going to have [ may have, after all I am the only one on this diet]. I just couldn't help search the internet over to find some very interesting recipes, not only for superbowl game day, but something we could enjoy when ever we wanted. I guess, when you can not have something, you then feel like having it all becuase I am a picky picky eater and there were alot of things I would have never thought of trying, but boy do they all look good to eat. Well, eventually I settled on these three recipies [ hope we can make them they look deliciouse ]. Tell me what you think? When it’s game day, this recipe looks good. Liz Pack Everyone knows that pigs in a blanket — litt...

Indonesian children make perilous journey to school over collapsed bridge Ok, I only have two things to say about this terrible situation: 1. Why does this writter [ see copy of small article below ] act so cavalier about this story and the terrible situation these kids have to endure. I look at the pictures and I am shocked and surprised that no one has done anything. That there isn't a public outcry about fixing this old bridge and securing the safty of these children. 2. I feel for these kids, I do. But I cannot help wonder about my children and the generation that is growing up today in America. I know for sure that if that bridge was out in my town - every boy and girl in my town would be sitting at home watching TV or playing video games becuase they can't cross that bridge [ easy ready made excuse to cut ] . In fact I am pretty sure the teachers of my town would call out anyway becuase hey - I'm not crossing that dangerouse bridge. Yes, I know - you're thinking: ...

Title: 10 ways to cut down expenses and stretching your budget dollars [ 01/18/2012 ] The World Bank warned Wednesday of a possible slump in global economic growth and urged developing countries to prepare for shocks that could be more severe than the 2008 crisis. For the United States, the bank cut this year's growth forecast to 2.2 percent from 2.9 percent and for 2013 to 2.4 percent from 2.7 percent. As reasons, it cited the anticipated global slowdown and the on-going fight in Washington over spending and taxes. [ 01/19/2012 ] The people in the know believe that Gas prices will rise to $4 a gallon and possibly even up to $5 dollars a gallon. Fears of not just another slow down but a recession are building. While the world is scrambling to fix the economy and the rich fight to keep their millions: I thought to myself - What am I doing? What am I doing financially to improve my situation, prepare for another national financial meltdown or possibly even a far greater devastating ...

8. Cut your bills down [ cut waste ]. Sounds easy enough right: Just cut your bills. I have always heard financial gurus tell the general public that all you need to do is cut down on your expenses. It’s a simple principal – you can’t deny that. I just never found a guru who actually told me how to do it. I mean in basic terms. You know? If I am totally broke living on the minimum, how can I cut my expenses – all I have is the Bills. You know – food bill, electric bill, water bill, cable bill, car bill [ payment] and so forth. How do I cut my expenses when I need to eat, I need electricity to keep the food I need to eat. I need my car to go to work in order to pay for the food I need to eat and so forth. How can you help me with that? Well, I am no Financial Guru, but I can share with you what I have done to cut down the bills [ expenses ]. A.Food bill: you need to it, no doubt about that. So what did I do, I started couponing, I learned what local store had 2 for one deals and I visi...

5. Create a plan and stick to the plan Yes, your thinking – this doesn’t help me save money, but you are wrong. Why do people fail, because they fail to plan? In order to get where your going you need to know how to get there. I to many times in the past often planned on doing this, achieve that but always failed to make plans. Plans, it helps you figure out where you start, how you progress and when you finish. Am I right. Imagine you enter a race and they tell you to start running, you ask in what direction and they say which ever direction you want. You ask for how long and they answer – I don’t know, until you get tired. Chances are you are not going very far. Making plans is what allows you to accomplish what you need or desire. Lets say your goal is to go on a dream vacation. You have to know first – how much it will cost. Then you will have to know how much money you have left over after to pay all your bills and expenses in order to know if you have extra to save toward this or...

It is that time of year, Camping in March! I want to go back to my favorite campground site "Kelly Park" in Apopka Florida. I love the place, but after four years running of having our family camping trip at Kelly Park - my significant other wants to try someplace new. Why? Cause people are sick, why change what works? But I have to give it to my significant other - doing some research, I have found some very interesting Campsites here in Florida. It does look tempting when I hear how some of these campsites have canoeing and even scuba diving [ always wanted to go scuba diving ]. I really feel bad that we are even considering not going to my favorite place, but the more I look the more I get that “Hhmm, interesting” feeling. Maybe it’s because we have gotten so close to not only the place but to some of the rangers there who see us and say hello like if we were long lost family. But I do admit, as I read about all the deferent things that can be done and enjoyed at these cam...

Monster Fish - My goodness that can eat a small child! I personally do not like fishing, sitting in a boat under the hot hot sun waiting for something to nibble on my hook. I tried it, did not like it, but maybe it was because I caught nothing that day. I still think fishing is a bit boring [ no offense ] but it is. You spend most of your time just waiting [ could be why most fishermen drink – get drunk….. ]. But For some reason I still want to try it, maybe I just didn’t have the right experience, maybe it could be I wasn’t fishing for monster fish like bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen (about $746,797 Cdn / $747K US ) and 269-kilogram tuna. Yeap, now that would be a fishing trip, hell that would be a trip of a life time. “Yeah buddy, there I was just me, the sea and this 5 foot blue fin fish. It shook the boat violently but I held on. It almost dragged me up and over the railing of my boat but I held steady. Yes, I showed that monster who ...

Monster fish – Alaska Halibut Ok, I said before that I didn’t like fishing. Tried it once and all I got was sun burn and a sore butt from sitting on my boat. Admittedly it was a small boat and I did not know what I was doing. But I always found fishing to be boring. My friend goes all the time and there are days he tells me he spends hours on the water only to come home empty handed. This fishing looks FUN! Of course, these monster fish like the Alaska Halibut are nothing to sneeze at. Just looking at the pictures I can’t help but think: wow that must have been an exciting time. Imagine fighting with that thing and all you have is a pole and a string [ I know fishing rod but still]. The more I look at these stories the more I want to jump on a plain fly over to Alaska and catch me one of these monster fishes. Anyone have some extra money they can lend me – I’ll give you the fish I just want the pictures and the story of a life time. So far here are some tips I picked up... Always have ...

Ever been at work and been so bored that you started looking for anything online to pass the time? Wait, what am I saying - that has to be 90 percent of all the work force in America. So there I was in the Mall Kiosk, late at night and not a single sole except the mall emplyees - who were roaming from store to store talking to each other... UMmmm .. why didn't anyone of them talk to me? Well, that's a defferent story. So back to my story.. I was bored, had no one to talk to [ darn mall employess... hate them... ] and I decided to go online. Not facebook, you need friends in order to enjoy facebook. I post a comment and I am lucky to get a response from anyone in say three to tweenty four hours. Didn't have the time to wait, that is if I even get a response. So I did a Google search for funny jokes - this is one of the ones I really liked... Enjoy.

Encouraging words for you and me. When you have kids, or when you think about your own life: it sometimes becomes overwhelming - thinking about tomorrow. Be tomorrow the next day or the far off future, it's hard to see what you want to come about .... especially if you don't have a plan. Because tomorrow and the future seem so far away we tend to look at it in terms of "it will never come" or "I can wait because I have time". Which is a mistake. Take it from a dad who had all these plans for his daughter only fourteen years ago. I thought of college,a car, savings, and so many things.... now fourteen years later I realized I am not financially prepared to pay for her college, she wants to learn how to drive and i am not even sure I can get her a car? I know, no one can predict the future - who knew the recession would come, the real estate bubble, and all the rest. But I didn't get prepared, 14 years is a long time and even if I would have just put $100 ...

US teen runaway mistakenly deported to Colombia ? This burns my butt.... First, she was not mistakenly deported. If you read the whole story she was arrested for stealing and she gave a false name. She then was prosecuted, charged, went thru deportation process, arrived in Columbia took her papers, accepted the help and started working at a call center [ without even knowing how to speak Spanish mind you ] and never once told anyone "hey, I am an American citizen". How is that a mistake? What really burns my butt is that this kid proves the retardation that happens in this world and in any government. You are sent back to your country [ in this case falsely because she lied about who she was ] and what does Columbia do - hey you broke the law but come here we are going to welcome you home, give you assistance and give you a job - do you speak Spanish? No, it's OK no one really cares at a call help center.... Give me a break..... Not to mention that she is pregnant? So, di...

Let me share some friendly advice: How private is your Bathroom? How private is your bathroom? Family advice think twice. I remember when I was a kid my older sister played a horrible mean joke on me. When I was a child [ wow I sound old ] I had this fear of someone walking into the bathroom when I was using it - you know …. #2.… The whole idea was dreadful to me. I didn’t even use the bathroom when I was in school because people - you know - they can hear you. For crying out loud, people sit in the stall next to you. But one day I am nervously using the bathroom [ don’t forget I was a child, I believe about 7 or 8 ] and my older sister decided to burst into the bathroom with two of the next door kids, just for kicks, you know - torture and embarrass your little brother. Possibly scar him emotionally for life, no biggie - all in fun. So lets just say it took me for ever to get over that one. So why do I bring it up? Because today I was at work and my office is in this small cross hal...

Why do people think that FREE means Cheap? I still keep up with all the best cellphone that come out. I still work part time at a cellphone company - so trust me when I say I know about the best cellphones, the cheapest cellphone and the cellphones I wish they would never had invented. A Free cellphone does not have to be a Cheap cellphone It’s no surprise - in case you didn’t know: You can get a Free cellphone [ smartphone, Droid ] online. But don’t let the Free price tag cuase you to fall into the cheap cellphone category. And when I say cheap cellphone, I mean cheap. No my friend, all smart phones are not created equal. If you came up to me and asked me which cell phone in the smart phone category can I get for free - I would point out several. For instance you can get the Incredible 2, the Revolution, the Bionic all of these are good Droid smart phones that you can get online for - wait for it: FREE. If you asked me which of the FREE smart phones are cheap as in quality - I would p...