Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time there was a gamma who was having a "happy" day... like this one.

Then at the 11th hour the Underwriters for the new home loan misplaced/lost all the happy gamma and gampa's paperwork. "Oh, whatever shall we do?" So we scramble through files to scan and resend besides many many phone calls and car miles. Let's just say I may have went over my minutes and Verizon loves me. And now the gamma looks like this.

Then the original attorney that was to do the closing decided it was too late in the day and he had two more closings to do and so everyone scrambles to find another attorney, they do and convene at his office around 4:00 PM only to find out that the bank has the money but will not transfer the funds because it is too late in the day. Closing scheduled for the next day.

Next day everyone thinks all is well when they get to the new attorney's office at 11:00 AM and find out that the two POAs will not be accepted by the Underwriter and so gamma has to go and get yet another one notarized and now gamma looks like this.

FINALLY after six hours in the attorneys office (the husband), many phone calls, appalling/rude behavior from various parties (won't mention companies or names but it wasn't us, the homeowners, new atty., our realtor or our mtg. gal... figure it out) gamma now looks like this

When gamma and gampa should be looking like this.

In a few days gamma will be seeing these folks (minus the guy in the stripes, we will miss you Sven)

And then gamma will look like this again

Because she will have this little helper

To help gamma move into this house in a week

This couldn't be a better expression of how gamma looked the past couple of days.

Dazzle your day

Design Dazzle is celebrating in a BIG way.

It's their Birthday and they are so generous to include all of us into a give away. Not "just" any give away but (2) $500.00 prize paks, one for a girl and one for a boy from Bei Bambini. So whether you have a small boy or girl or have grandchildren, this is a great chance to win some cute cute duds for that little one. Head on over here to look at all their cute clothing and then leave comments here with all the ways to enter.

This is "MY" Life

Pictures taken off the walls...

Boxes packed sitting on the counter

What is left of my office

My dining table has become my desk now along with belongings yet to be packed

The bookcase is empty

AND THIS IS "MY" LIFE for 10 more days!

What can I say...

It's a slow day in a little East Texas town.

The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.....

On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything.

However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is conducting business today.

Celebrate our Military

History

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting the President issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday; "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."

In 1953, an Emporia, Kansas shoe store owner named Al King had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who served in World War I. King had been actively involved with the American War Dads during World War II. He began a campaign to turn Armistice Day into "All" Veterans Day. The Emporia Chamber of Commerce took up the cause after determining that 90% of Emporia merchants as well as the Board of Education supported closing their doors on November 11, 1953, to honor veterans. With the help of then-U.S. Rep. Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for the holiday was pushed through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954.^[3]

Congress amended this act on November 8, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with Veterans, and it has been known as Veterans Day since.^[4][5]

Although originally scheduled for celebration on November 11 of every year, starting in 1971 in accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday of October. In 1978 it was moved back to its original celebration on November 11 (with the exceptions described above). Since this change, there has been a trend against being closed on the holiday. It began with businesses (excluding banks) and in recent years some schools and local governments have also chosen to remain open.

Smile

Should be able to click on any photo to enlarge.

FABULOUS JEWELRY GIVEAWAY

Lisa Leonard, is pretty famous around blogland with her wonderful jewelry pieces that it would be hard to just choose one, you can get really hooked. Centsational Girl is having a giveaway for a $100.00 gift certificate to use towards some Lisa Leonard Jewelry, you need to go and check this out... what are you waiting for... scoot.

Here are two of my favorites:

The Oval Monogram Necklace

The Open Circle Bracelet

You can check out Centsational Girl's blog here and the giveaway here and Lisa Leonard's designs here.