Journal Jar - Question 1

Discribe your first job.  What did it pay? What were your duties?  What was your boss like?

My first job was at the Santa Anita Golf Course in the coffee shop.  The year was 1965.  The pay was $1.00 an hour plus tips.

I had to come in early and help the cook/boss to prepare the specials for the day.  Then as the golfers came in, I was the waitress.  There were only the two of us and a dishwasher, so I not only served, I cleared, cleaned and set the tables.  The golfers were obnoxious.  I was young - only 16 years old and they made the most disgusting suggestions to me.  I was a good waitress, but it was a tough job for me.

My boss was the cook/owner of the coffee shop.  He was pretty gruff and gave me the dirtiest jobs to see if I could cut it working there.  I didn't make it too long, because he didn't want to hear me complain about the nasty things the golfers said. 

Just Curious

We went to a new church for Easter services yesterday.  Our pastor and his family and our family.  We enjoyed the service.  It' not the same of course, because we are used to our pastor's style of preaching.  This guy was just different.

About halfway through the service, I looked up and saw what I though were fairly large earrings on a young man about two rows ahead of us.  Strange, I thought that he should have circles on his earlobes.  The I looked up again and could see the podium through his right ear!  I looked again and sure enough, the earring was inside his ear.  So, drifting away from what the pastor up front was saying, I just had to check out his left ear!  Again I could see through his earlobe.  Goodness!  He had pinkie-thick earrings and holes in his lobes.  Have I been sheltered?  This was a guy!

So tell me . . .is the piercing thing going a bit too far?  Am I living in the dark ages?  Do that many people have huge holes in their ears? 

I'm just wondering . . . .

From Dawn's Journal - 20 Questions

1. What is your least favorite thing to do and so you put off doing it?   Getting out of bed in the morning.

2. Are there any celebrities you wish would just disappear from tv or movies? Jerry Springer and others of his ilk.
3. Are there any things people would be surpised to know about you? Not much anymore!  I'm pretty open about my life.
4. Do you feel men and women have misconceptions about each other that should be cleared up and if so what are they?  I don't honestly know.  We seem to be more alike than different when you get to the bottom of things.
5. If you changed jobs now what's one job you would not want to have?  I wouldn't ever want to work in a bar again.
6. Has your life turned out the way you expected? Not at all.  It's been waaaay different, but it's a very good life.
7. What fellow blogger do you feel you have the most in common with?  Well, now, I see commonalities in a lot of them . . . my son John got me started here, but we have very different lives.  I have come to identify with a lot of people - afraid if I listed them, I might leave someone important out.
8. Is there any television show you watch that people hate watching with you?  Trauma: Life in the ER and Babies: Special Delivery
9. Is there anything you want people to know about you? What?  And let them know who I really am?
10. Is there anything you were afraid of that you're not afraid of anymore?  Being lonely
11. Is there any fears you wish you could get over?   Spiders!  Creepy flying things! 
12. Where did your first kiss take place? About a block from school - by a tree.
13. Do you ever daydream? All the time.  It's sort of a "what if" game I play with myself.  Very entertaining.
14. What were you like as a child? Skinny, smart, geeky-looking and spoiled.
15. How would you describe your clothing style? Early thrift shop

16. Where's the one placeyou always feel happy? At home with family
17. If you were reincarnated what do you want to come back as? Me
18. Is there anything you've done that you wish you could take back? More than I can count, but those things make me who I am today.
19. What was your most horrific nightmare about? Murdering my ex, cutting him up in pieces and stuffing his parts unde the floorboards of the house . . .

20. Do you agree with Scott Peterson recieving the death penalty? What does it matter?  He'll probably die of old age waiting to die . . .

Have a Blessed Resurrection Day

We are preparing to go to Easter service at the church, then spend the rest of the afternoon rejoicing with our pastor who just returned from a missions trip to Africa.

            He's Alive!  He's Alive! He's Alive!

This is the blessing we have today and every day of our lives.  For He is risen and we are free from sin.  His sacrifice is more than I can imagine.  In the Old Testament, Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son to honor God.  How much more God honored us when He sacrificed His only Son to save us.  Praise His name forever!

 

OOOOPs!

I made the picture too big and now I can't change it!  What happened to the "edit entry" space?  HELP!!!

Krissy's Photo Scavenger Hunt

Krissy asked us to just take a picture of anything this week.  But the one caveat was that it not be from our files, but new.  Since I couldn't cheat this time and since I've been pretty much confined to my bed because of my back, I took what was close to me. Hank brought us an Easter Lily, which I've put just above me on a dresser.  I love the trumpet look of the flower. It's really precious.

Many thanks to all of you who wrote to help me with this!  It took 3 tries, but I think this one works.  The second one was HUGE!  I somehow sized it the wrong way.

Doggie Visit

Well, the little doggies came to visit this morning.  They are so cute!  Even Dufus the Conure loved them.  The littlest dog, Taquila, weighs just about 3 pounds.  She's fiesty, though.  They were probably all from the same litter.  They're surely bonded to one another.  One of the dogs is male and he's the biggest - maybe 7 pounds.  He's hard of hearing, but his nose seems to work well.

I would love for them to have stayed, but the truth is, we still aren't moved in and Hank isn't finished over there. Rob took the ladies to see the house, but it's a real mess!  Hank is trying, but he's got stuff all over the place while he works.  We might not get the dogs if we don't get moved soon enough. I hope things move along . . . .I just adored the doggies.  Andrea loved them, too.

I can't wait to find out if they will be our doggies.  Pets surely bring a lot of joy into a household.