I JUST WANT TO VOICE MY APPROVAL HOW OUR PRESIDENT TOOK THE TIME TO VISIT AND EULOGIZE THE MINERS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE MINE DISASTER....BUSH, WOULDNT EVEN LET US SEE THE COFFINS COMING BACK FORM THE WAR, NOT PAY RESPECT TO ALL THE FAMILIES WHO LOST THEIR CHILDREN, OR LOVED ONES...LET ALONE, TAKE THE TIME OUT FOR CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. HIS HUMANITY IS SHOWING!!! AND THEN HE WENT TO NYC TO KICK ASS WITH THE WALL STREET CROOKS. HE IS TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE..AND ALTHOUGH HE IS CONSTANTLY BEING BAD MOUTHED, HE STILL KEEPS ON GOING FORTH DOING WHAT HE BELIVE IS RIGHT.
WHEN I WAS IN MEXICO A BAD THING AND GOOD THING HAPPENED. MY CREW, WITHOUT MY PERMISSION SOLD WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A CANNON BALL, TO A GOOD CUSTOMER FOR SOMEWHERE AROUND 50.00. SUPPOSEDLY THEY SAID THEY CHECK IT OUT AND THEY WERENT WORTH TOO MUCH. THE FACT THAT THEY DIDNT KNOW HISTORY..WAS NOT IN MY FAVOR..IT WAS ENGRAVED....GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF CEMETERY HILL.. 1863. MY DEAR...THAT IS "THE" BATTLE OF "GETTYSBURG"
WELL, ONE OF THE GUYS WAS WATCHING THE EBAY SITE OF THE CUSTOMER WHO BOUGHT IT...AND IT WENT FOR WAY OVER 5000.00DOLLARS. I MANAGED TO BE COOL, AND NOT ANGRY AT ALL.....AND I KNOW WHAT ANGER IS...ITS THAT FEELING IN THE PIT OF YOUR SOTMACH...AND YOUR HEAD AT THE SAME TIME...AND IT MAKE YOU WANT TO EXPLODE. I DIDNT HAVE THAT SENSATION AT ALL. I AM SURE, I WOULD HAVE MADE THE SAME MISTAKE, IF I OVERLOOKED THE INSCRIPTION...BUT IF I DID SEE IT, I WOULD AT LEAST ASKED 1000 FOR IT...
TODAY, THE CUSTOMER CAME IN AND I ASKED HIM WHY IT WENT FOR THAT MUCH MONEY..AND HE MENTIONED THE INSCRIPTION....HE ALSO SAID, THE MONEY HELPED HIM A LOT..HE BOUGHT A NEW HOUSE AND WAS BEHIND INPAYMENTS...HE ALSO SAID... to my surprise...it was not a cannonball at all, but an Artiliary Shell.....and whats more, it was still filled with dynamite when he bought it, 150 years later....had the store had a fire, or some other happening,,,,the entire store might have blown up. He said that he had to soak it in water for two days and then diffuse it...so the store goies, unless, its a story to defuse me....But, as I told him, I wasnt angery at all. (of course he could have thrown me 500 dollars to ease the pain!
He also bought an Eskimo carved whale vertebre....with the face of an eskimo on it for 500. I had asked 750 he bargained...and I gave in.. Well, he got 1100 on EBAY for that one .....He had told me he was going to take it home and keep it forhimself...He told me it was hanging in his room....when I replied...hmmmmmmmm bullshit, you sold it on ebay for 1100........today the story came out that his live in girlfriend was sooked by the face, his mother and aunt said it was SAtanic...and it was worthless....He and his mother and aunt made a bet...they each put in 100 dollars and he put in 100. If he sold it at a profit he woudl win the money..If he couldnt sell it at all(they said it was worthless) he would win the 200....and he won the 200...as the story goes. Maybe both stories are true and maybe fabrications aimed at making me feel better. I showed no anger...and he is still a customer......he spent 125 today.....which is good for chachkas...on a Rainy monday.
I think I mentioned that i had the most delicious icecream at NEROS in Livingston the other night..I didnt buy it...but asked the waitress why one scoop of icecream was $9.00.. Was it made from the mile of cow that lives in the Himlayas...or maybe Mink milk..... She really couldnt explain.but brought out a little for me to taste..and it was like ice cream that must have been made in heaven...the tatiest smoothest......I have ever eaten....
I went on line to see if one buys it in bulk it might be cheaper...well, 2.5 gallons deliverd from CINNCINATI is only 140.00 which comes to a little under 30 dollars for a half gallon....Haggen DAZ is about 9 or 10 dollars a half gallon.....so this is really expensive.....although it also has to be speciall crated and packed with dry ice. but i will think about this...maybe for some very special occasion, like if I can pay off all my credit cards and sales ans state taxes..it might be an occasion....to have nude dances with underwear filled with this icecream...and.....ok...my fantasies are running away with me...but you get the idea.. an occasion of major proportions....
There is a massive class action suit against WAL MART..the Nazi's of the Corporate Stores that have damamged entirue cities..and our population...who are buying inferior merchandise..from CHINA, as our cities decay...mom and pop stoes no longer exist, and many Southern and Western Topwn have become ghost towns... I wish a boycott would spread like wild fire,,,but people would rather dave a few dollars, than to do what is morally right....and save our towns, and businesses....and politicains are also to blame,,, they accept bribes, and then give them tax breaks for moving into the small towns, before thei destroy them. WALMART..GO TO HELL!!
IT IS NOW ALMOST 4 IN THE MORNING..I AM HALF ASLEEP AND AGAIN...MENTION, THAT IF THEIR ARE MANY SPELLING ERRORS..MY EYES ARE HALF CLOSED AND MY HANDS ARE WORKING INDEPENDENTLY OF MY BRAIN....
I ALSO WANT TO COPY A LETTER I WROTE TO AOL..ABOUT JD SALINGER...A POST AFTER A WRITER TORE HIM A PART, AND THEN SLIGHTLY BUILT HIM UP AGAIN.
CATCHER IN THE RYE WAS THE FIRST BOOK I READ IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR
PLEASURE! BEFORE THAT I HATED TO READ..AND I FELT THE BOOK COULD HAVE
BEEN ABOUT ME. IT WAS NOT A GREAT NOVEL LIKE "GONE WITH THE WIND",NOR
WAS HIS VOCABULARY EXTENSIVE...BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. PEOPLE
RELATED TO THE STYLE AND CONTENT.
AFTER THAT BOOK, I STARTED READING A LOT....AND EVENTUALLY WENT TO
COLLEGE....BECAME AN ENGLISH TEACHER..WHO TAUGHT THE STUDENTS HOW TO
LOVE TO READ...AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT ISNT.....
AND SINCE THEN....I HAVE BECOME A WRITER....(CANT TELL
FROM THIS POST) AND ONE BOOK HAS BEEN ACCEPT BY RANDOM HOUSE, AND WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME A MOVIE.....THANKS TO THE OLD
GOAT, WHO LIKE YOUNGER GOATLETS OF THE FEMALE TYPE.
IT IS VERY EASY TO CRITICIZE, BUT MUCH HARDER TO PRODUCE AND BE
SUCCESFUL, MANY MEN LOVE YOUNGER PEOPLE...AS LONG AS IT IS A MUTUAL
ADMIRATION SOCIETY IT IS OK. 50% OF MARRIAGES OF SAME AGE...SAME
SEX, END IN DIVORCE...AND HOW MANY DONT AND ARE UNHAPPY.
NOT THAT THIS MEANS ANYTHING, BUT MUSLIMS,HINDUS AND SOME HADDICS
JEWS TAKE ON BRIDES THAT ARENT EVEN OF AGE....ARE THEY LABELED
PEDOFILES/????MAYBE THEY SHOULD. jd salinger WAS A CHARACTER, ODD,
RECLUSIVE... but not an evil man.... WOuld have loved to have meet
the OLD GOAT!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
BEGIN:THE 4TH REICH IN AMERICA..ARIZONE GOV EVA BRAUN!!
THEY SAY IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICAN.... but who are "they"? The mentality of Americans, is not very different than that of the GERMANS after WW1 . The Female GOV of Arizona, now have instituted the same policy that ADOLF HITLER invented...for the JEWS. They had to carry "papers" Then the yellow stars on their arm...then the conscentration camps and mass extermination..
It happened slowly.......Its possible that first the LAtinos, then the MUSLIMS, and then as hate increases, the JEWs and Blacks will again become victims....and dialogue for an ARYAN NAtion....might ring out again. Is my scenario rediculous and impossible? WOuldnt the JEWS and some Germans think that what followed Hitlers rise...woulnt have wrought such horrors??? So I might not be that far off....
I am disgusted with the GOV of Arizona....and the people in AMerica who are so racist, so stupid, and so evil. The MEDIA and the REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE....pushed the ALien ISSUE..to get the AMerican paeople off such issues as the war, and how BUSH and HIS NAzis.....lied to and robbed AMerican, not only of its money, but robbed us of our reputation as a kind country...who helps others. Most of the world hates us now...although, after OBAMA got elected...they have somewhat thawed their icy feelings towards us......it showed, that Americans were fed up with the BUSH Administration and the war.
But you might as, why we havent ended the war...Obama said that was one of his priorities. I have TWQ ideas on that one.. If we just pulled out..all at once...there would be a civil war, and the death toll of IRAQIS killing each other.....Muslims killing muslims.... would be astronomical. It would be a blood bath like the killing fields of CAMBODIA after Viet NAM. And, I think we are trying to avoid that....but the second reason...might even be more realistic. WHEN KENNEDY LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR DALLAS, THE LAST THING HE DID..WAS TO SIGN A DOCUMENT...CALLING FOR THE RECALL OF ALL THE TROOPS IN VIET NAM...AND NOT TO CONTINUE THE WAR....... he was assasignated a few hours later.....The first thing that LYNDON JOHNSON did was to, sign antoher document that negated what KENNEDY signed...and basically said, "GO ON WITH THE WAR" He was killed to keep the war going.....a big MIlitary Industrial COmplex Conspiracy...(not a theory- its blatant)
Now, in my humble psychic opinion, Obama was reminded of this...and he decided to stay alive...yes, I think he was threatened.....and he just couldnt come out and report this to the American PUBLIC....now could he....I am sure they threatened to harm his family as well. He is worth so much more to us ALIVE..and his choice might be the right one.. He is a greater man than most people even think!!!
I just do not understand human nature....In todays news, they foudn teh body of a three month old baby that was thrown off a Bridge in NJ...by her father? I understand complete psychosis.....when voices woudl tell the person, the victim was evil or possessed...but this isnt the case.. In NEWBURG NY, there was a funeral of a 4 year old boy, whose mothers boyfreind (now in jail on other charges) is thought to have killed him. I just do not get it!!!! I guess people like us, cannot understand the criminal mind.... ANd I do not think the death penalty is enough for these people.....I fantascize the most horrible torture...but does that then make me a bad person too?
I have mostly very very nice customers...but some of them are really pains in the asses...I am thinking of buying Preparation H....and giving out small tubes to those who just are out of control and give me a hard time. FOr example, one lady bought a couch for a mere 199.....she said she would pick it up.. The she said, she coudlnt...and needed it delivered... We told her we would Drive it TO Pomptom Plains, for a mere 75.00. 2 men in a truck, a big 16ft diesel....lots of gas..at 3.00 a gallon.... You coulnt get a taxi cab to make the trip from HOHOKUS to Pomptom Plains and back for 75....and that would have been one driver....we send to. Well she called back and said we were ripping her off....and bargained. We told her, then, to get someone else cheaper... She of course couldnt..and claled us back. but still complained. I really costs me about 82,00 to make that delivery.]
Another customer bought a bed.. as is for 200. She then asked to hav ethe head board glued and strenghened....which the charge was 100.... but the delivery to TEANECK was free!! YES free, for repeat customers.... We delivered it and she called back later...screaming that her box springs didnt fit!!! And she expects us to come and fix it free!!!! I explained, we sold the bed and fixed what she asked. I had not idea about the size of her matress and box spring....and that she chose the bed.......we did nothing wrong.... Well, I sent Rich to either fix it at a small fee, or I would give her the right to exchange the bed for something else.......to show good faith....but she bad outhed me to RICH...and I didnt know anything about the problem.....OY!!!
It happened slowly.......Its possible that first the LAtinos, then the MUSLIMS, and then as hate increases, the JEWs and Blacks will again become victims....and dialogue for an ARYAN NAtion....might ring out again. Is my scenario rediculous and impossible? WOuldnt the JEWS and some Germans think that what followed Hitlers rise...woulnt have wrought such horrors??? So I might not be that far off....
I am disgusted with the GOV of Arizona....and the people in AMerica who are so racist, so stupid, and so evil. The MEDIA and the REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE....pushed the ALien ISSUE..to get the AMerican paeople off such issues as the war, and how BUSH and HIS NAzis.....lied to and robbed AMerican, not only of its money, but robbed us of our reputation as a kind country...who helps others. Most of the world hates us now...although, after OBAMA got elected...they have somewhat thawed their icy feelings towards us......it showed, that Americans were fed up with the BUSH Administration and the war.
But you might as, why we havent ended the war...Obama said that was one of his priorities. I have TWQ ideas on that one.. If we just pulled out..all at once...there would be a civil war, and the death toll of IRAQIS killing each other.....Muslims killing muslims.... would be astronomical. It would be a blood bath like the killing fields of CAMBODIA after Viet NAM. And, I think we are trying to avoid that....but the second reason...might even be more realistic. WHEN KENNEDY LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR DALLAS, THE LAST THING HE DID..WAS TO SIGN A DOCUMENT...CALLING FOR THE RECALL OF ALL THE TROOPS IN VIET NAM...AND NOT TO CONTINUE THE WAR....... he was assasignated a few hours later.....The first thing that LYNDON JOHNSON did was to, sign antoher document that negated what KENNEDY signed...and basically said, "GO ON WITH THE WAR" He was killed to keep the war going.....a big MIlitary Industrial COmplex Conspiracy...(not a theory- its blatant)
Now, in my humble psychic opinion, Obama was reminded of this...and he decided to stay alive...yes, I think he was threatened.....and he just couldnt come out and report this to the American PUBLIC....now could he....I am sure they threatened to harm his family as well. He is worth so much more to us ALIVE..and his choice might be the right one.. He is a greater man than most people even think!!!
I just do not understand human nature....In todays news, they foudn teh body of a three month old baby that was thrown off a Bridge in NJ...by her father? I understand complete psychosis.....when voices woudl tell the person, the victim was evil or possessed...but this isnt the case.. In NEWBURG NY, there was a funeral of a 4 year old boy, whose mothers boyfreind (now in jail on other charges) is thought to have killed him. I just do not get it!!!! I guess people like us, cannot understand the criminal mind.... ANd I do not think the death penalty is enough for these people.....I fantascize the most horrible torture...but does that then make me a bad person too?
I have mostly very very nice customers...but some of them are really pains in the asses...I am thinking of buying Preparation H....and giving out small tubes to those who just are out of control and give me a hard time. FOr example, one lady bought a couch for a mere 199.....she said she would pick it up.. The she said, she coudlnt...and needed it delivered... We told her we would Drive it TO Pomptom Plains, for a mere 75.00. 2 men in a truck, a big 16ft diesel....lots of gas..at 3.00 a gallon.... You coulnt get a taxi cab to make the trip from HOHOKUS to Pomptom Plains and back for 75....and that would have been one driver....we send to. Well she called back and said we were ripping her off....and bargained. We told her, then, to get someone else cheaper... She of course couldnt..and claled us back. but still complained. I really costs me about 82,00 to make that delivery.]
Another customer bought a bed.. as is for 200. She then asked to hav ethe head board glued and strenghened....which the charge was 100.... but the delivery to TEANECK was free!! YES free, for repeat customers.... We delivered it and she called back later...screaming that her box springs didnt fit!!! And she expects us to come and fix it free!!!! I explained, we sold the bed and fixed what she asked. I had not idea about the size of her matress and box spring....and that she chose the bed.......we did nothing wrong.... Well, I sent Rich to either fix it at a small fee, or I would give her the right to exchange the bed for something else.......to show good faith....but she bad outhed me to RICH...and I didnt know anything about the problem.....OY!!!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Very strange and funny story....about a live TROLL
My frined BArbara told me this story and I wil do my utmost to relay it as accuratly as she told it to me. One of her employees has a son who is Autistic/Mentally impaired..and here I do not know the politically and medically correct term...so forgive me if i strayed from the correct words.
This young man is 19, quite large and strong, and had been able to stay home alone, during the day, with no problems. Ok here is the story that left me peeing in my pants (figuratively of course)
Barbaras employee got a call from her son who seemed very aggitated..."MOMMY, he said I caught a live troll..come home come home"... She calmed him down and told him to relax and watch television.
15 min later he called again, and said"Really MOmmy, I caught a live troll....please come home and see him" Of course....he tried to placate him...again.Time PAsses and he calls again and again, and sounding more hyper each time..Finally, when she couldnt stand the calls anymore, she decided to go home and see what ,if anything was going on.
She met her son at the door, who was happy to see her,,and grabbed her hand and almost dragged her up the stairs..MOMMY, I locked him in the closet.....As she was racing up the stairs she hears a banging....then she hears..."LET ME OUT OF HERE>> go call your mother....." She entered the bedroom, and heard a voice ocming form the closet,,,banging on the door...and a dresser was pulled in front of the closet as well.."OK MOMMY, we can let him out now that you are home. The son pushed away the dresser, unlocked the door....and out comes a real, live living DWARF!!!!! Yelling and screaming and hollering.... The Employee didnt know whether to shit or go blind (this is an expression I learned in college in Lexington KENTUCKY)
The dwarf started yelling..that he knocked on the door....he was a JOHOVAHS WITNESS......and was there coliticiting their nonsense...when the son, mistook him for a legendary troll.....picked him up off the ground bodily.....carried him up the stiars and licked him in the closet....Now even dwarfs are coming out of the closets..... YOU JUST COULDNT MAKE UP THIS STORY....I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING...BUT THE POOR LITTLE GUY, MUST HAVE BEEN SCARED TO DEATH. What if the boy was scared and decided to kill him.....as some trolls, have a pretty bad reputation.......although, I never met a troll I didnt like.
This young man is 19, quite large and strong, and had been able to stay home alone, during the day, with no problems. Ok here is the story that left me peeing in my pants (figuratively of course)
Barbaras employee got a call from her son who seemed very aggitated..."MOMMY, he said I caught a live troll..come home come home"... She calmed him down and told him to relax and watch television.
15 min later he called again, and said"Really MOmmy, I caught a live troll....please come home and see him" Of course....he tried to placate him...again.Time PAsses and he calls again and again, and sounding more hyper each time..Finally, when she couldnt stand the calls anymore, she decided to go home and see what ,if anything was going on.
She met her son at the door, who was happy to see her,,and grabbed her hand and almost dragged her up the stairs..MOMMY, I locked him in the closet.....As she was racing up the stairs she hears a banging....then she hears..."LET ME OUT OF HERE>> go call your mother....." She entered the bedroom, and heard a voice ocming form the closet,,,banging on the door...and a dresser was pulled in front of the closet as well.."OK MOMMY, we can let him out now that you are home. The son pushed away the dresser, unlocked the door....and out comes a real, live living DWARF!!!!! Yelling and screaming and hollering.... The Employee didnt know whether to shit or go blind (this is an expression I learned in college in Lexington KENTUCKY)
The dwarf started yelling..that he knocked on the door....he was a JOHOVAHS WITNESS......and was there coliticiting their nonsense...when the son, mistook him for a legendary troll.....picked him up off the ground bodily.....carried him up the stiars and licked him in the closet....Now even dwarfs are coming out of the closets..... YOU JUST COULDNT MAKE UP THIS STORY....I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING...BUT THE POOR LITTLE GUY, MUST HAVE BEEN SCARED TO DEATH. What if the boy was scared and decided to kill him.....as some trolls, have a pretty bad reputation.......although, I never met a troll I didnt like.
GOSSIP:Adam Lambert isnt just GAY...he is JEWISH OY!
Here is a shocker....well, he wasnt fooling anyone when he was paragind around in makeup on IDOL.... and no one can dispute his talent....He was the tlak of the Universe that he "might be gay" as the "sky might be blue" or water"might be wet", and he came out and survived the scandal...well, but who knew he was also a member of another Minority.... he is JEWISH!!! and can he sing....OY...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNb2Qsh0F_Q
Follow that link on YOU TUBE... what a voice. Should he become less popular, he can always get a job as a CANTOR in a HOLLYWOOD Temple... I may be old fashion, but I like the looks of the old ADAM, before he tried to look gay and outrageous... His voice precedes his sexuality... and he is VERY talented..... Now just look at the Old ADAM...in the aboue link....and picture him as ELVIS in the early days...I would puke to see Elvis all dressed up with stupid hair, makeup and painted nails...Adam is a talent without all the "glam". I hope he eventually calms downs, and realizes he doesnt have to be that outrageous....to be noticed. His talent will carry him.
Follow that link on YOU TUBE... what a voice. Should he become less popular, he can always get a job as a CANTOR in a HOLLYWOOD Temple... I may be old fashion, but I like the looks of the old ADAM, before he tried to look gay and outrageous... His voice precedes his sexuality... and he is VERY talented..... Now just look at the Old ADAM...in the aboue link....and picture him as ELVIS in the early days...I would puke to see Elvis all dressed up with stupid hair, makeup and painted nails...Adam is a talent without all the "glam". I hope he eventually calms downs, and realizes he doesnt have to be that outrageous....to be noticed. His talent will carry him.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
lIFE AND dEATH IN THE fAST lane
We took on consignment today, the contents of a home, of a businesswoman, who passed away a few months ago. Her Lawyer contacted me and we worked out a consignment arrangement.....It seemed, the woman never married....and the lawyer pointed out several times, that she wasnt very good looking and never married....to which I replied, I have seen many people, who were not good looking and theymanaged to get good looking spouses...because their beauty was inner beauty...and personality and charm.....I dont think the lawyer understood!!
The woman lived very modestly.....nothing in her home was exceptionally pretty, or deocrated nicely.....no fancy gadgets, or large TV, or modern furniture..(nor antique either)...no art work...except photos that were framed, and some owl sketches...and 100 owl knic nacs...and 75 Hummels.....(Hitler Youth) I call them...
Her Passion was the Opera....and the lawyer told me she left a MILLION DOLLARS to the Metropolitan Opera HOUSE......guess she really loved the OPERA...she had a passion for something,,,and her went to the OPERA, only a week before she passed away.....it was good to hear that she lived right up to the end of her life....I saw from Photos, that she traveled quite a bit....and even traveled to CHINA..which is something,,,i would love to do.....and still might.......
When we get an estate like this, there is an EMotional cost to me....I search around the house....look at photos, analyze things that she colelcted and left as clues as to what she might have been like. In the attic, a very dust laden place, with poor light....I looked in boxes that she save.....and wondered why she saved some things that could never be used...like hundreds of rubber bands, piles of old wallpaper books....and letters and bills going back to 1918, when her parents owned a business in the area.....The attic had been trashed by her relatives looking for the goose that laid the golden egg; the LAwyer said she had sold some coins, and jewerly, but there was probably much more....The attic was in shambles....and i thought, how said...this is what is left of her life...
On a lighter side, I was facing inwards into a huge closet..I found a wig...that reminded me of one that I used to wear years ago....I put it on quickly.....and Juan didnt see what I was doing.. WHen I turned around, he was starign right at me, and laughe so hard, he almost fell down the stairs......he then took a bunch of photos...that I am thinking about putting on here.....
The woman lived very modestly.....nothing in her home was exceptionally pretty, or deocrated nicely.....no fancy gadgets, or large TV, or modern furniture..(nor antique either)...no art work...except photos that were framed, and some owl sketches...and 100 owl knic nacs...and 75 Hummels.....(Hitler Youth) I call them...
Her Passion was the Opera....and the lawyer told me she left a MILLION DOLLARS to the Metropolitan Opera HOUSE......guess she really loved the OPERA...she had a passion for something,,,and her went to the OPERA, only a week before she passed away.....it was good to hear that she lived right up to the end of her life....I saw from Photos, that she traveled quite a bit....and even traveled to CHINA..which is something,,,i would love to do.....and still might.......
When we get an estate like this, there is an EMotional cost to me....I search around the house....look at photos, analyze things that she colelcted and left as clues as to what she might have been like. In the attic, a very dust laden place, with poor light....I looked in boxes that she save.....and wondered why she saved some things that could never be used...like hundreds of rubber bands, piles of old wallpaper books....and letters and bills going back to 1918, when her parents owned a business in the area.....The attic had been trashed by her relatives looking for the goose that laid the golden egg; the LAwyer said she had sold some coins, and jewerly, but there was probably much more....The attic was in shambles....and i thought, how said...this is what is left of her life...
On a lighter side, I was facing inwards into a huge closet..I found a wig...that reminded me of one that I used to wear years ago....I put it on quickly.....and Juan didnt see what I was doing.. WHen I turned around, he was starign right at me, and laughe so hard, he almost fell down the stairs......he then took a bunch of photos...that I am thinking about putting on here.....
Friday, April 16, 2010
Incredible Naacp Fund Raiser & Honors Meeting....reflections
My Dear Freind Barbara....called me last minute to go with her to a very special Naacp Fund Raising Dinner, that will also Honor one of our friends MS Vivian Sanks-King. Vivian was Cheif Councel of The Medical School and Hospital iN NEWARK, and scapegoat when the crap hit the fan, what their billing office did!!! She luckily escape unscathed.. She is a leader int he commmunity in so many ways,.....Naacp,Church and many many community projects...and does such good work, even though, she has had the most incredible hardships...the murder of her son, her daughterinlaw died of cancer...and one of her grandchildren also passed away. Tonight the Naacp community gathered to Honor her..and a few other people...Important leaders in the Community in Essex County.....
The even was held at the Richfield Regency, a catering hall....a marble palace...The Taj Mahal of food in NJ......the home of BAr Mitzvahs and Weddings that just about duplicate Coronations... I joke with Barbara and said we are going to a Blackmitzvah.
The event was a fund raiser...complete with a silent auction and door prizes and gues what.. I won a door prize...a thermos with two cups.....The food was drop dead. The appetizers was a huge "thing" made of filo dough, filled with choped mushrooms,gravy and possible spinach?) It was delicious..as was the brucheta on its side, and a mixed mescalin salald with balsamic vinegar dressing...THIS WAS ENOUGH TO SATISFY ME..... but it was followed by lemon sherbert,serving in a glass flower with mint liquor.....then a prime rib, roasted potaotes, fresh green beans, fresh rye bread, and followed by a chocolate dumbling with whipped cream and a strawberry and a cappuchino with whipped cream. My diet was completely destroyed....
MS Oliver who is speaker of the Assembly in TRenton....second only in power to our new slimy, fat and disgusting Govenor....spoke. She was amazing.....giving statistics how few black people, and even fewr black women have been involved with our government in NJ........a miniscule percentage....And the same goes for involvement in the State Police... She was Articulate and elegant and to the point..
I sat with Barbara, VIvian(who was getting HONORED) and other members of the government, and Corzines ex cheif consul, and his ex policy advisor.....and the First Black president of the NJ BAr assasication (a woman).......WHen the president of the NAACP annouced VIVIANS HONOR..he asked for her freinds and family to stand up. It was an amazing feeling....one of joy ..that is really hard to explain, that I was one of the people who stood up at our table with her.....One of two WHite People in a room with 500 black people....
But let me now rephrase the above. The perception of a life time of viewing discrimination in America, caused me first to think the way I wrote the last paragraph.. You see, it didnt matter what color I was...It didnt matter what color anyone else was... they asked for freinds and family. and I am a friend. Race, Religion, Sexual ORientation... wasnt asked about....FRIENDS and I am a friend...
It was still a very powerful moment...
The even was held at the Richfield Regency, a catering hall....a marble palace...The Taj Mahal of food in NJ......the home of BAr Mitzvahs and Weddings that just about duplicate Coronations... I joke with Barbara and said we are going to a Blackmitzvah.
The event was a fund raiser...complete with a silent auction and door prizes and gues what.. I won a door prize...a thermos with two cups.....The food was drop dead. The appetizers was a huge "thing" made of filo dough, filled with choped mushrooms,gravy and possible spinach?) It was delicious..as was the brucheta on its side, and a mixed mescalin salald with balsamic vinegar dressing...THIS WAS ENOUGH TO SATISFY ME..... but it was followed by lemon sherbert,serving in a glass flower with mint liquor.....then a prime rib, roasted potaotes, fresh green beans, fresh rye bread, and followed by a chocolate dumbling with whipped cream and a strawberry and a cappuchino with whipped cream. My diet was completely destroyed....
MS Oliver who is speaker of the Assembly in TRenton....second only in power to our new slimy, fat and disgusting Govenor....spoke. She was amazing.....giving statistics how few black people, and even fewr black women have been involved with our government in NJ........a miniscule percentage....And the same goes for involvement in the State Police... She was Articulate and elegant and to the point..
I sat with Barbara, VIvian(who was getting HONORED) and other members of the government, and Corzines ex cheif consul, and his ex policy advisor.....and the First Black president of the NJ BAr assasication (a woman).......WHen the president of the NAACP annouced VIVIANS HONOR..he asked for her freinds and family to stand up. It was an amazing feeling....one of joy ..that is really hard to explain, that I was one of the people who stood up at our table with her.....One of two WHite People in a room with 500 black people....
But let me now rephrase the above. The perception of a life time of viewing discrimination in America, caused me first to think the way I wrote the last paragraph.. You see, it didnt matter what color I was...It didnt matter what color anyone else was... they asked for freinds and family. and I am a friend. Race, Religion, Sexual ORientation... wasnt asked about....FRIENDS and I am a friend...
It was still a very powerful moment...
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Sensitivity,simple enjoyment, and other nonsense
Yesterday, while driing to MAHWAH, I noticed a deer grazing in front of a building on rt 17, somewhere between Saddleriver and Ramsey. My mind immediately created tis phrase,"its fate is sealed"! I knew, that this beautiful creature, wouldnt survive long. It was oblivious to the traffic passing, some 50 feet from his off limit pasture. I tried not to think of what might happen, but he was far from the mountains and the fields...and unless a miracle happened, he wouldnt know how to find his way back.
TOnight, on the way back to Mahwah again, I saw a deer in the road. If it was the very same one, I couldnt know...but most proabbly it was. This beautiful creature was victim of man kind, hunger, urban sprawl...Its very sad, but you know, its a very unfair UNIVERSE and it always will be. And it doenst help if you are sensitive.
For the past few weeks, as the boys and I clean out the MAHWAH Store at night....we are working, but manage to enjoy ourselves. We laugh and joke and have a good time. We usual work 2 and half to three hours, and then go to LARRY"S PIZZA MASters, where we continue to get silly and laugh and eat. I really look forward to the simple pleasure of the good companies of my employees and friends...We are like a family. I dont know if its philosopical or night.....but to me, the simple pleasures of life are more enjoyable than big flash in the plan events...and spectacular shows....
What can be better than food freinds, good food and good laughs./????nothing..
FINDING LOST THINGS... wHILE CLEANING OUT MAHWAH.... i have been finidng things that I thought were lost or stolen for years....I was shocked to see...some of the things that turned up....and yet, there are other things that definately were stolen out of the store....years ago......but that is another story not for here...
my horrible cough, that is a side effect from my blood pressure medicine...LISINOPRIL has been lessening each day,... now that I am off it....there are still coughs, but not the horrid coughing spells when I can even catch my breath....a few more days, and i am hoping it will be gone for good. Even My Phramacist....told me the medicine did the same thing to him.....and he had to go off it....
TOnight, on the way back to Mahwah again, I saw a deer in the road. If it was the very same one, I couldnt know...but most proabbly it was. This beautiful creature was victim of man kind, hunger, urban sprawl...Its very sad, but you know, its a very unfair UNIVERSE and it always will be. And it doenst help if you are sensitive.
For the past few weeks, as the boys and I clean out the MAHWAH Store at night....we are working, but manage to enjoy ourselves. We laugh and joke and have a good time. We usual work 2 and half to three hours, and then go to LARRY"S PIZZA MASters, where we continue to get silly and laugh and eat. I really look forward to the simple pleasure of the good companies of my employees and friends...We are like a family. I dont know if its philosopical or night.....but to me, the simple pleasures of life are more enjoyable than big flash in the plan events...and spectacular shows....
What can be better than food freinds, good food and good laughs./????nothing..
FINDING LOST THINGS... wHILE CLEANING OUT MAHWAH.... i have been finidng things that I thought were lost or stolen for years....I was shocked to see...some of the things that turned up....and yet, there are other things that definately were stolen out of the store....years ago......but that is another story not for here...
my horrible cough, that is a side effect from my blood pressure medicine...LISINOPRIL has been lessening each day,... now that I am off it....there are still coughs, but not the horrid coughing spells when I can even catch my breath....a few more days, and i am hoping it will be gone for good. Even My Phramacist....told me the medicine did the same thing to him.....and he had to go off it....
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