I seldom talk about him unless someone else brings up his name because any talk of religion can lead to hurt feelings, ugliness, etc. Personally I consider Osteen a more of a motivator rather than a preacher, in the sense that I know it. This morning he said something that I have said for years, "God did not bring you here to be mistreated and abused." Did I say my hallelujahs?--you bet I did. So many people stay in bad relationships, marriage, workplace, friends, because they are afraid to leave or worst they are afraid the person will leave them. Osteen went further to say the best thing an abuser can do for you is to give you the gift of good bye.
Why do I bring this up? Not sure. It's my first real thought this morning.
Getting through to a real person on the telephone.
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. 
I lost my work. I have been typing for over an hour and did not hit save one time. What was I thinking--no one knows better than I to save your work every few minutes. I am devastated. Well, maybe the draft was really bad and it's a good thing I lost it. Yeh. Right. :-( 
Boy. What a week. I am so happy that I went to my volunteer appreciation dinner. I may pursue another venue of (quasi)-volunteering. I am not sure if that is the correct term, I suspect not. LOL. But this is something that comes with a small stipend. 
I am exhausted and not sure why. I went to the Jewish Family Service Volunteer Dinner last night. It was very nice and we did not stay out late. Incidentally the JFS serves everyone--all races and religions. 
Last night while watching the news I saw that Pinochet had been denied a State funeral, so there will be no pomp and circumstace, etc. However, before signing out just now, I saw this headline. No real thoughts or comments, just an observation that no matter how evil a person is, there is always someone who will mourn their death. I guess that's a good thing. 
This past weekend, I noticed that newsletter subscriptions for my Work & Family site 
I can't believe how quickly this week has moved. I woke up so early Monday morning, by 3:30a I was up and working. I tried to go back to sleep, but that wasn't happening so I just got up to work. It's a good thing I did though. I went to visit my friend, she has been moved to UH--I'm happy for that. At least I can visit her on a weekly basis, perhaps more. However, we had so much to catch up with, I stayed from 11a or so until after 3p. That and being up at 3:30a put a damper on my evening. I was exhausted. It was worth it, my friend is looking much better. This is only the second time that I have actually been a visitor at UH. I was somewhat familiar with the floors and the layout. It's funny I kept looking around and hoping that I would not be recognized as 'legal management'. Everything went fine. It is possible that folks would not want to talk to me anyway with everything that is still going on in admin.
Hi Bloggie, It's been a few days huh? :-) I love being away but always happy to return. As wonderful as my 4 pound laptop is, I can work faster using the larger one. But, I hate to think of what my e-mails would have looked like had I not been able to get to the internet for a week. Groan and more groans. I know that the smaller machine will be a real blessing.
It's a autum beautiful day. The sun is almost blinding this morning and there is no sign that AC had torrential rain and gigantic waves climbing over the boardwalk. 
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. The waves are still crashing against the shore this morning and, it's windy and rainy--brrr.
Tony Martin was on television last night. He was sensational. I cannot believe that he is 80 years old. It seems almost 'eeww' to think that he is sexy, but what you gonna do? (LOL) When I was in the 5th or 6th grade, I remember that I knew how to draw 3 things wonderfully well; a bird, an hour-glass shaped woman with her hands on her hips, and Tony Martin standing in a spotlight with his arms stretched out. I always wrote the words to one of his songs on the same page. I don't remember the name of the song, but I do recall that I knew all of the words. I am sure that's because my dad listened to the "Make Believe Ballroom" all day. I think it is still on public radio. The promo song is playing in my head right now. 
I can't not believe the noise from the ocean's waves last night. I ended up getting up in the middle of the night to write about it.
So much is going on, and I'm stressed. Sill it feels like a good day. 
All of a sudden, I am feeling swamped. There was a 9:30a meeting I needed to attend yesterday, but was unable to, that always makes me feel anxious, maybe it's a guilt thing. Two days ago I was asked to speak at the Friends of East Orange Library Auction tomorrow. I don't have anything written down, must do so today and get some feedback.
While doing a search, I came upon the most interesting site, ZuZu 
I have spent sooo much cash this month :-( Plus I used my AMEX to the hilt. I should not use my AMEX until June 2007. Of course I have to be realistic so I know that this is not possible, but I do plan to make December a much better financial-spending month. So far, November has been a slow income month for me, but I am hopeful, I still have a couple of weeks to go. When I picked up my biz mail yesterday all I found was my AMEX bill and my new wireless laptop was listed (a pox on those Visa people for doing the right thing and trying to protect me.) But I do consider this a very necessary expense. Come January I think I will invest in a pdf program, which will make my online advice to clients difficult to change. I don't believe that anyone has done that or would do it, but it does pay to be cautious. I must follow my own advice--meanwhile I am trying to find a good free program.
Everytime you stop and say, "Now I have heard everything", there is always one more thing. Now there is the "Wonderjock" for men, apparently very similar to the "Wonderbra" for women. I am not knocking this, if women can wear a bra that makes them appear to be more endowed, why not men? 
I heard this news while watching television last night. 
Got my nails done yesterday. I decided to go with a different color, I do every once in a while. The color I use is the same one I have been using for 6 or 7 years. Hey, it suits me :-) So anyway, I pick a color from the rack and my manicurist does a wrinkle nose face and says "Oh, no. Not this, you need a 'working woman's color. MMmm. What? I can't be jazzy? I'm trying to look hot and she calls me a working woman? Since she is the professional, I took her advice and went with the WW color. <big grin>
You all know that I volunteer cuz I enjoy it and that I belive that I have an obligation to give-back because I have been so lucky to have family, decent health and good friends. The coordinator of volunteers at Jewish Family Service has asked me to be on their volunteer commitee and I agreed to do this. I hope I can add valuable input. Everyone knows that I spend time with "my senior." I started doing this because I hoped that someone would do the same for my mom if necessary. Fortunately, she had her own volunteer group, her children, her grands and her church members. I had never thought of what I do as really important--these days I am seeing that it is. 
Boo! Happy Halloween everyone. 
I have turned all of my clocks back, except one, it is "sort of broken", it keeps good time but I can change the time, so I just leave it. Last week I was telling a friend how I dislike this time change. For a couple weeks I will look at my clock and think it should 'this' time now. Sunday morning I woke up at 5:45a and could not get back to sleep, I decided to check my e-mails and saw that my laptop clock showed 4:45a, oh no, I forgot that I had turned my clocks back an hour. So now what can I do at 4:45 in the morning?
South Orange's PAC is open 
What Flavor Margarita Are You?
It's been a while since I have been here. I have been putting my thoughts on paper with plans to transfer them here. Of course I have not done that. 
Despite the ugly news that yet another member of Congress has resigned because of bad and illegal behavior Saturday was good--a great fall day.
Florida Congressman Mark Foley. I saw some of the e-mails (alleged e-mails) from Foley to male pages. EEww, eeww and eeww. He stepped down yesterday. This will probably get uglier. I just don't get it.
I spoke with a dear friend this morning and did a quick prayer. When we all were younger we never thought of illness, or if we thought of it at all, it was about someone else, never us. All of the little aches and annoying pains from long ago are making us pay our dues. I know with me it is a fall that I took when I was in my 20's and worked at the newspaper office, now I notice that my ankle becomes tender to touch when it is humid. Oh my goodness. Hel-low! Have I turned into my mom? 
That's what my horoscope has said for 3 days already. What's up with this?? But taking taking some precautions, moving slowly and with purpose--just in case ;-). I talked at length with my girlfriend, three of us may get together before the snow flys. While talking to her, I was reminded of something I have always remembered from the Felix and Oscar television show (can't remember proper name). Felix was fond of saying, "Never assume, because when you do you make an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me'." That was so obvious when we were speaking of hotels, etc. I guess forgot that people do change, so sometime this year we will all stay at what I call my 'stage door' place. If you are familiar with this classic film you will know the kind of apartment we will be living in for a week. She was delighted when I told her that our concierge(sp) may be a "Carlton-like" (Rhoda show) gentleman. She said that's fine as long as the price is right!! Was this my girlfriend? Right then I confessed that I thought she would hate it and told her why, she reminded me that at one time she had a huge expense account and that things and people do change. (LOL) It will be great to see two old friends again--we will have a lot to talk about.
I took some get-away time. Arrived home late last night, the traffic was so backed up for so long I became antsy. Just dreadful. I am inundated with e-mails. I was able to check my e-mails while away, but just handled the ones I had to answer. There were only 2 pc's available and everybody had the same idea--checking their online mail. This is not a complaint, the pc usage was free as was the printer and paper. You can't beat that. One of the e-mails I received was an offer at my Work & Family site for free cell phones for myself and my readers for a review of the new phones. Of course I cannot accept these phones, so will respond with regrets and a thank you for offer today. 
I am thinking that I just may have to break down and get cable, at least I was thinking that last night. It's so difficult trying to watch television cuz I really do hate most of the shows. I finally turned to Ch. 13 and caught a program about Leonard Bernstein. It was great--I think he may have been my first real crush. I clearly remember watching Young People's Concert every week, without fail. I thought he was sooo handsome. Last night they were showing an aged Bernstein and was wondering, "is that what he looked like?" and finally they showed early Bernstein, the man I remembered. I did get a chance to see him in person and he was as powerful (I doubt I used that word back then) as I remembered him on television. I never knew anything about him, except his music. Boy, he had issues, and then some. I remember crying like a baby when I learned that he had died. I am sure that I have a couple of his records in "my vault". I often think of doing something with my old records, there is a lot of good stuff there, including some very old (1920's??) records.
Well, one of my contracts was just renewed for another year (yah!). I signed Saturday. I have finished two reviews and sent them in, am hopeful that they will be used this week. Have to head to my biz mailbox with a positive attitude, maybe I will find goodies awaiting.
Today as always, when my AOL Welcome Page opened I looked at all of the sections. This is what I saw in the Lifestyle Section. 
I can't believe that former tennis bad boy Andre Agassi has become almost an elder statesman in tennis. I keep remembering the cocky, in-your-face, flamboyant Agassi who would fly of the handle at the drop of a hat. To hear him speak to eloquently about his fans and tennis, and to watch those tears streaming down his face was something to behold.
I just had to say that. I don't remember temps ever reaching this high on a daily basis. Although, yesterday I did do a lot a moving around and found the weather quite pleasant. I suspect that will not be the case the rest of the week. :-( 
Mornin' Bloggie. Just having my morning coffee (a treat because I have cut back) as I am jogging my memory.
I recently found this quote and shared it with a dear friend. Now sharing it with my friends here as well. "I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." - Oliver Goldsmith
I came across this site and had to have it. 
When I saw Prada, I was reminded of a boss who used to call me at home on my lunch hour (I lived close by) just about everyday to ask me to stop by a store and bring stuff to her , cookies, pantyhose, etc. I finally stopped answering my phone, I am sure that she knew I was home but what could she do I did not leave because of the annoying telephone "bring me things" calls--I finally left because she used to yell at her husband and it was very embarrasing. 
I am looking at my calendar and wondering why I put so much into this week. I even have a 8a meeting one day :-( no one's fault except my own. Getting ready for breakfast, can't believe that I have not have coffee or tea in a forever time. Now that I am thinking of it, maybe I will have a cup of tea this morning. I am sure that I have done the "you must drink water" penance long enough. 
So what do you think? My guess is that Corzine will be a one-term governor. I realize that I am in the minority when I say that I don't care about gambling in the casinos, but I have to tell you that I would not want to walk into a silent one, how spooky is that? The noise is part of the excitement, it lets you know that you are in AC. The daily rain must add another level of disappointment for vactioning visitor's to the Garden State. They can't even walk on the beach or enjoy the rides, etc. 
I just found this amazing link. i started searching for information regarding Barbara Walters dad, Lou Walters (Latin Quarter) and found this delicous link to old nightclubs in New York 