strange strange weather....strange strange behaviors

what a strange week it was....Monday started out very windy. I felt like I was being blwon off the road while going to work. Tuesday it was more of the same but with slush falling from the sky. Wednesday, I headed out to work with more wind but ice falling fromthe sky. There was no accumulations but the drives were horrendous.
Tuesday night, there were a half a dozen police cars and a few ambulances down the road from us for about a hour. Not sure what was going on. Last night,around 8PM, while I was out at a meeting, they closed off the road, and there was , again, about a half dozen police cars and a few ambulances at the same home. This time, the police were NOT letting any cars down the road at all. The kids said that around 9PM, they all left. I looked at the web site for the local paper and for the local news stations but could not find anything about it. ....strange.....I do know that a month or so ago, I saw police escorting a man with suitcases from that home...so I am thinking some sort of domestic distrubance.
A few of my work families have had children hospitialized...and that upsets me so. As you know, I work with families that have children with mental health issues, and try to help the parents keep the kids home and out of hospitals and out of residential treatment placements. I feel like I let these families down but my co-workers let me know that I didn't. I was re-assured that this is the time of year that these things happen....shool pressures get to be too much, holidays are around the corner, the kids are inside more... It was/is still disheartening.

what is OCC?

OCC stands for Orange County Choppers...or as they are also known American Choppers...and they can be seen on TV on the Discovery channel. I do not usually watch them...but occasionlly will take a quick peek. They make custom bikes ...they have made bikes for Lance Armstrong, a bike to remember those who lost thier lives in 9/11, a bike for A Rod of the Yankees ( boo ) , , they makde a bike for Santa., a POW/MIA bike....lots of cool stuff

OCC

My brother is visiting from the Seattle area....we went to the OCC today to look around their store and then we went to dinner. I had more fun at the OCC than I did at dinner.





Here are Rob, Ethan and Ernie looking at a bike

This is the 9/11 bike.... on the wall behind it are patches that different fire departments, police dpartments from all over the contry sent in,,,,, it is very moving to see

the family ( minus me) out in front of the OCC.... we are less than 5 minutes down the road from them...we often see the guys when we are out and about

Dinner was at TGIFridays...and I have been dieting...I picked chicken and shrimp....and asked for extra veggies, no potatoes........first they gave me potatoes and forgot half my veggies and the shrimp were friedand I thought they were not......and when the veggies came they were mush..... not at all happy but didn't complain because they were busy and I was tired of waiting... I was sooo disappointed. It made this dieting girl sad...

The company amde the bad meal much better!!!

maybe you know why?

I am assuming it is the joke a computer we have here....but whenever I go to look at certain blogs here ....and I click on them, the internet stops responding,...it is the same ones all the time....
any suggestions???

lumps in boobs

16 year old daughters just should not have to worry about lumps in boobs.....Teen felt a lump and we went to the DR who thinks it most likely is a cystand also felt another one...and said it is unusual for a teen to have anything but cysts and lumpy breasts, especially if there is more than one lump....

but we go for a sonogram on Thursday just to be sure....Dr said a mammo is probably not a good thing since teens have dense breasts and the sonogram should tell more...so...we wait til we get results....

And so I tell Teen...Don't worry, I am sure nothing is wrong....
and in private, I am chewing my fingers to nubs

6 unexpected tings about me....

I was tagged...and so here I go


1. I do not like chocolate....unless it is a Reese's peanut butter cup

2. I do not like hotdogs..no way no how....

3. when there are stinky smells in our bedroom, the dog always gets blamed....it is always his fault, unless it is the husbands

4. when my youngest brother was a baby, I used to dress him in my doll clothes and pretend I finally got a baby sister

5. I had my children believing that on Veterans day. they had to give me a gift because I was a Veteran. Then one of them got smart and asked a teacher if that was true.

6. I hate to put away clean laundry....and if I can get someone else to do it, I am a happy person....

I tag anyone else who wants to tell us unexpected things about them,......

tape pal

Hellow to all my Pumpkin Pals

My friend Shay, who I met through Aol blogs and who has a blog here, does tape paling...and I asked if I could be a tape pal...and today I recieved my very first tape from her. It is like being a pen pal but with tapes. She has the cutest accent!!!

so, this afternoon, I am going to go into hiding and listen to her tape and maybe find some time to answer her!!!!