Lonnng weekend coming

Well today/tonight will be long I am sure. My brothers father in law passed earlier this week and tonight is the all night wake. Starting at 4:00 PM and going all night till the early morning hours. Will I be there all night long? No but they are family so I need to be there for a while to show my support. Especially with the kids. They loved their grandpa and they are still very young so it may be a little hard for them to understand what is going on.

Saturday will on some small level be a day of rest until the evening when I have to drag myself to the latest and greatest Elktone gig. I think I am becoming really old in mind because I am starting to want to stay home on Saturday nights??? How in the world did this happen? I have a rock star reputation - those silly people. This will require a trip to South Beach soon.

Sunday is Super Bowl Party at my Elks Lodge. Pot Luck. Have no idea what I will be bringing I am thinking Garden Salad. Ok that will go over real well in a party with what I am sure will have wings, cuban pork, chips, dips, beans, and then Garden Salad. Gotta love it.

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Happy Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! Yesterday was the Chinese New Year, and now it has come and gone and yes I did have Won Ton Soup and uncut long noodles and sauce for lunch. It was actually pretty good. And for the record no I was not hungry an hour later. Hee hee hee.

Tonight I shall be going to my Local Elks Lodge for dinner. We are taking our Great Grandmother (91 years old) there for dinner. We feel she will fit in really nice there and feel comfortable.

On a sad note my Brothers Father in Law passed away early Monday morning and he will be missed. In our family we are all close and love each other so he is a missed loved one for us now. He was in a lot of pain for a long time. Among other things he had cancer and his liver eventually failed him. We actually feel better he is no longer in pain and at peace. The services/viewing will be Friday night. In our culture viewings are an all night affair to send the loved one on to the light. While I will not be there all night I do plan on staying with the family for a while. Mainly more for the kids in 3 years they have lost 3 grandparents and sometimes for the little ones it is hard to understand.

Better times are ahead we know that.

Todays Quote:

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Celebrate the year of the Ox

Welcome to the 4707th year of the Chinese lunar calendar. Thus making this the Year of the Ox. I thought since in this world we are fortunate to be surrounded by many different cultures and personalities I would give a small tribute to the Chinese and their year today. The Ox is the sign of properity through fortitute and hard work! I like that A LOT! The Year of the Ox is denoted by the earthly branch character 丑. In the Vietnamese zodiac, the water buffalo (zodiac) occupies the position of the ox. Ox people need peace and quiet to work through their ideas, and when they have set their mind on something it is hard for them to be convinced otherwise. It is important to remember that the Ox people are sociable and relaxed when they feel secure, but occasionally a dark cloud looms over such people and they engage all the trials of the whole world and seek solutions for them. Hum am I an Ox person? The answer to that question is no I just fell shy of being born in the year of the Ox. The Ox years have been 1937, 49, 61, 73, 85, 97.

So if you can to celebrate the Chinese new year eat some Chinese food. A little lesson I recently learned in the Spiritual sense traditional Chinese people will eat Fried Rice for properity and will eat uncut noodles because represents longevity and long life. On this day they will sleep with the windows to their homes open to scare of evil spirits, will not wash their hair today.

More little facts about the Chinese New Year is The origins of the Chinese New Year celebrations were born out of fear and myth. Legend spoke of the wild beast Nien (which also is the word for "year") that appeared at the end of each year, attacking and killing villagers. Loud noises and bright lights were used to scare the beast away, and the Chinese New Year celebrations were born.

So there you have it my tribute to the New Year. May we all have health, peace, love and properity.

Warm days ahead

It is warming up guys! Currently it is 54 outside but it will warm up to 67 yeah beach weather some would say. Ah it was nice while it lasted.

Well it is Friday and the weekend is already here. What will the weekend bring?

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Weather - LOVE IT

It's 46 and soooooo cold! And I hate to say this but it warmed up to 46 because when I got up it was colder and I heard on the news in some areas with the wind chill it felt close to low 30's upper 20's YIKES Batman that is cold! Yeah another jacket day this time the jacket was the thicker one used in New York. Yeah that's right I had to break it out from way back in the closet (note to self send jacket to get dry cleaned its been hiding back there for a few years collecting dust). There are Freezing warnings throughout the state. Yeah things stop when it gets that cold not just because it is cold but because of the crops and plant life being harmed.

In the last few days and even today I have heard a couple people say "Ok I am tired of this enough" "This is ridiculous we are in Miami it is not suppose to be like this" "I am sick of this cold weather." OK come on people we are having the pleasure of getting a nice cool spell, lets enjoy it. If we had this for months at a time I would tend to agree but come on a week maybe 2 if we are lucky - I think we can handle it. Before you know it the heat and humid temps will be back you can go back to sweating. Yeah I am looking forward to that.

Time to slightly change the subject, have you watched American Idol? Oh boy it is good. While there are the usual "are you kidding me" people trying out I have heard quite a nice selection of good talent too. I think we may see the next super star. Some really sounded pretty good. I like the new judge she seems to be a keeper.

The weekend is almost here there is an Elktone function - yee pee. Then the rest of the weekend is rest and chill.

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It is cold no freezing in Miami??

Huh? What is up with that? Ok I do not complain about it being cold and no I am not complaining but oh yeah it is super duper cold!! Look at how it is right now!





48° Clear Wind: NW at 13 mph Humidity: 46% Wind Chill: 43°





It is 48 and feels like 43 and depending what part of town you are in can be colder. Oh yeah baby it is cold. Now look at the forecast!

This means it is not going to warm up in the usual 2 days. How COOL is that? I actually wore my jacket to work today. Oh yeah I sure did.

Ok so here we are the day after the new beginning for this Country. The hope is that we can come and stay together and work to rebuild our lives and become a stronger nation. The economy sucks and our new President has a tough road ahead but I think if the government tries then we the people will also try and together we can move ahead.

All I have to say is...

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Todays Quote:

Overcoming Limits

"Discovering new worlds will not only
bring you happiness and wisdom,
but also sadness and fear.
How could you value happiness
without knowing what sadness is?
How could you achieve wisdom
without facing your own fears?
In the end, the great challenge in life
is to overcome
the limits within yourself,
pushing them to places you would never
have dreamed they could go."

A New Dawn

A new dawn is here. Today this country will have a new President and a milestone at that. The first African American President and he promises change. Well, we already know change just by the President. I can't wait to see how he changes the country. I am looking forward to the economy being better, more jobs opening, people having better opportunities. While this is a great country to live in, there tends to be a trend that if you do not have the money then you are going to get no where. I once heard someone say that kids in the lower level commit the crimes because they have worthless parents who do not care about them. I was in an environment where confronting him on that would not had been favorable because no one there would of backed me up so I needed to refrain. But I wanted to say you know I am one of those kids that for the first 14 years of my life I lived in one of those neighborhoods and guess what my parents did care. They cared enough to work their buns off even though this was a time where two incomes was not popular. But they did it. While sometimes I agree there are some who are so messed up they neglect their kids, guess what not all parents living there are like that. Some are struggling just to keep the roof over their heads and feed their kids. And, it is people like that which makes it hard for working class dogs to get even a little ahead. They see where they live and automatically judge them. Is that fair to judge someone based solely on where they live? No I do not think so and maybe the next few years there will be better chances for people to move on up. I hope we get more and more diversity in our culture and we see change for the better. Not just in this country but all over.

Ok so the last few days have been rather nice and peaceful. Friday night we were at the lodge for the Friday Night dinner thing and my gang of usual suspects came and it was just a great time. I love sitting down with a small group of friends and hanging out laughing and just enjoying the time. Saturday was nice too. My BFF from like Junior High came over and we went to yeah hold your horse my Elks Lodge. The http://www.gold-diggers.org/ were having a preview party and we got to crash the party and watch some numbers. The girls and guys use the ballroom for practices starting this week so it was nice to go by and see some old friends and meet some new ones. Sunday was nice too a great lazy day and then went to my mother in laws for dinner. "Granny" is in town - mind you Granny is 91 years old and quite sweet. Monday was a super duper day it was a true lazy day. Did well - nothing all day. LOVED IT!

Now today/now back to work. Well I suppose it was about time right? We shall see. I should of taken off to the see the swearing in but I am recording it so I can skip through the babble of the reporters and stuff like that. Now I am just looking forward to the week.

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