I have a new email address:
tawny_ford@yahoo.com
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
It's Finally Friday!
And that's a good thing. Why? Because Friday is almost Sunday. And Sunday at sunset is the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
I don't fast for Ramadan. I can't. I always get sick when I do. So the former Catholic in me comes out and I give something up for those thirty days instead. And I donate one hundred dollars to those in need.
This Sunday, as celebration, a bunch of us are getting together at HSM's house at sunset and having dinner. We've ordered a deli tray, a HUGE deli tray, from a restaurant that has the best corned beef around.
This deli tray will be corned beef, an assortment of cheeses, new dills, old dills, rye bread, 2 kinds of mustard, tuna salad (none of us like chopped liver so tuna is the substitution), sweet pickles, hot peppers, olives, lettuce + tomatoes, russian dressing, cole slaw and potato salad. I think I'm forgetting a few things...
HSM and her family will provide the desserts and beverages.
I'm really looking forward to it, both to the food and the companionship. It's going to be big fun.
So if you go to call me Sunday evening, well, I'm not going to be here. I'll be with friends and family feasting on corned beef.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
I don't fast for Ramadan. I can't. I always get sick when I do. So the former Catholic in me comes out and I give something up for those thirty days instead. And I donate one hundred dollars to those in need.
This Sunday, as celebration, a bunch of us are getting together at HSM's house at sunset and having dinner. We've ordered a deli tray, a HUGE deli tray, from a restaurant that has the best corned beef around.
This deli tray will be corned beef, an assortment of cheeses, new dills, old dills, rye bread, 2 kinds of mustard, tuna salad (none of us like chopped liver so tuna is the substitution), sweet pickles, hot peppers, olives, lettuce + tomatoes, russian dressing, cole slaw and potato salad. I think I'm forgetting a few things...
HSM and her family will provide the desserts and beverages.
I'm really looking forward to it, both to the food and the companionship. It's going to be big fun.
So if you go to call me Sunday evening, well, I'm not going to be here. I'll be with friends and family feasting on corned beef.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Finally x 2!
I have two finallys for today:
1. With any luck at all, I will never have to mention my phone lines being staticky again. The first time a repair person came out he said the lines were wet and he dried them. The second repair person (the fellow yesterday) said another telephone line was rubbing up against mine and that was the cause of the problem. He moved them apart.
Look, I realize it sounds crazy. I mean, this is a sex line, right? And the lines were wet and then being rubbed up against? I had to laugh each time the repair person diagnosed the problem (smile).
But now everything is a-okay.
2. And this is really important--I heard former president Jimmy Carter on tv yesterday talking about the disrespect President Obama is encountering.
Now my Uncle David, myself and a couple of my friends have been saying all along that the reason that yahoo from the Carolinas hollered out while Obama was speaking to Congress (you lie! he said) was because he had no respect for Obama because he's black.
You can talk all day but that's what it is. Some people (white people) say their problem with him being president is because he's a closet Muslim, because he's not a born-here-in-the-USA citizen, etc. That's all code for 'he's a nigger'.
Jimmy Carter, being as he hails from Georgia, was the perfect person to finally come out and say it. Bill couldn't have done it, makes no matter that he hails from a southern state, because he's regarded as the first black president depsite the fact that his skin is white and his ancestors were, too. It would have been nice if Bush, the last one, would have stepped up but......
So Jimmy said it. Racism. That's what the problem is.
Here it is 2009 and, despite everybody saying racism is dead and buried, long gone never to return, in all actuality it's alive and well and thriving in the hearts and minds of some US citizens.
It's not pretty to hear but often times the truth isn't so pretty. It's just true.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
1. With any luck at all, I will never have to mention my phone lines being staticky again. The first time a repair person came out he said the lines were wet and he dried them. The second repair person (the fellow yesterday) said another telephone line was rubbing up against mine and that was the cause of the problem. He moved them apart.
Look, I realize it sounds crazy. I mean, this is a sex line, right? And the lines were wet and then being rubbed up against? I had to laugh each time the repair person diagnosed the problem (smile).
But now everything is a-okay.
2. And this is really important--I heard former president Jimmy Carter on tv yesterday talking about the disrespect President Obama is encountering.
Now my Uncle David, myself and a couple of my friends have been saying all along that the reason that yahoo from the Carolinas hollered out while Obama was speaking to Congress (you lie! he said) was because he had no respect for Obama because he's black.
You can talk all day but that's what it is. Some people (white people) say their problem with him being president is because he's a closet Muslim, because he's not a born-here-in-the-USA citizen, etc. That's all code for 'he's a nigger'.
Jimmy Carter, being as he hails from Georgia, was the perfect person to finally come out and say it. Bill couldn't have done it, makes no matter that he hails from a southern state, because he's regarded as the first black president depsite the fact that his skin is white and his ancestors were, too. It would have been nice if Bush, the last one, would have stepped up but......
So Jimmy said it. Racism. That's what the problem is.
Here it is 2009 and, despite everybody saying racism is dead and buried, long gone never to return, in all actuality it's alive and well and thriving in the hearts and minds of some US citizens.
It's not pretty to hear but often times the truth isn't so pretty. It's just true.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Another Day, Another Hitch
I know the usual expression is 'another day, another dollar', but my remake on it is much more appropriate for the way my day is going.
Remember how just the other day I almost giddily told you that the phone troubles were a thing of the past? That the phone repair person had banished the nasty, squeaky, staticky phone demons?
Well, they're back.
They were gone less than 24 hours.Yesterday, when they returned, they were annoying. This morning they made it virtually impossible to conduct a conversation.
The phone company said they would send someone out as as soon as possible. Business customers are a first priority. A little while ago I received an automated message--I HATE bots!--stating that they were working hard and my phone would be right by tomorrow Tomorrow???
Okay, so if you call me today and it sounds like, well, screechy and funny, give me your phone number and I'll call you back on my dime.
Even phone sex divas have messed-up days (smile)!
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Remember how just the other day I almost giddily told you that the phone troubles were a thing of the past? That the phone repair person had banished the nasty, squeaky, staticky phone demons?
Well, they're back.
They were gone less than 24 hours.Yesterday, when they returned, they were annoying. This morning they made it virtually impossible to conduct a conversation.
The phone company said they would send someone out as as soon as possible. Business customers are a first priority. A little while ago I received an automated message--I HATE bots!--stating that they were working hard and my phone would be right by tomorrow Tomorrow???
Okay, so if you call me today and it sounds like, well, screechy and funny, give me your phone number and I'll call you back on my dime.
Even phone sex divas have messed-up days (smile)!
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Some Days Life Just Gets In The Way
I'll tell you what, yesterday I had plans to sit myself down in front of my msntv2 and write something really good. I had been working on it in my head the previous night as well as that morning and it was good. I could feel it in my bones. I knew you'd be on the edge of your computer chair as you read it.
And then......
Life got in the way. What happened? My msntv2 went crazy. It got infested with demons. I was on the phone with tech support for over two hours. The final consensus on the part of the techie was that I needed to have the phone company and 'clean up' my phone lines--get the static gone.
So I did. The phone company sent a repairman right out. They move really fast for business customers. An hour later and all my phone lines were clean. Remember that pesky static on the 1300 line? All gone!
That night I was good to go and go I did. I sent a few emails, I surfed a little bit, but I was too wore out, stressed out actually, to write the blog.
This morning I had big blog plans again. But guess what? The doggone msntv2 was infested again! The demons were back! Three hours and two tech support people later--I'm back online.
But, and I'm sure you can appreciate this, my big writing plans are on hold. I want to say it'll happen tomorrow, but I'm afraid to. What if those pesky demons pounce again?
So sometimes our best laid plans get all messed up. So if you ever thought it was just you that got turned sideways--nope, me too! Scant comfort, huh (smile)?
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
And then......
Life got in the way. What happened? My msntv2 went crazy. It got infested with demons. I was on the phone with tech support for over two hours. The final consensus on the part of the techie was that I needed to have the phone company and 'clean up' my phone lines--get the static gone.
So I did. The phone company sent a repairman right out. They move really fast for business customers. An hour later and all my phone lines were clean. Remember that pesky static on the 1300 line? All gone!
That night I was good to go and go I did. I sent a few emails, I surfed a little bit, but I was too wore out, stressed out actually, to write the blog.
This morning I had big blog plans again. But guess what? The doggone msntv2 was infested again! The demons were back! Three hours and two tech support people later--I'm back online.
But, and I'm sure you can appreciate this, my big writing plans are on hold. I want to say it'll happen tomorrow, but I'm afraid to. What if those pesky demons pounce again?
So sometimes our best laid plans get all messed up. So if you ever thought it was just you that got turned sideways--nope, me too! Scant comfort, huh (smile)?
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Living In A Neighborhood
Woke up this morning....no! not the first line of the Sopranos theme song (smile)! I woke up this morning to the sound of carpenters tearing the roof off of the house two doors down and across the street. Not a bad sound. a good sound, because that means that the family is getting something they need and people are working--the family that's paying for the roof and the fellows putting it on.
The only down side was that they started at 6am. Maybe you're up and ready to roll at 6am, even on a Saturday, but I'm not. Not any day.
I understand why they were at it early. Start early and you can finish the job in one day. It's a two story house with an addition in the back and an attached garage. That's a lot of shingles to take off and put back on. And it's supposed to be borderline hot today so the earlier you start the less time you have to sweat in the worst of the heat.
Next door to me, at the new neighbors, their dog was up early, too. From the moment they let the dog out to do it's business, until they open the door and let it back in the house, every single day, the darn critter yipes. Not barks, yipes. And it's not like the new neighbors bust their ass to let the dog back in. Nope. They let it yipe for 15 or 20 minutes.
And when they leave to go someplace, and they don't take the dog with them, the critter yipes from the moment they pull out of their driveway until the moment they pull back in, even if it's hours and hours and hours later.
On the other side of me, they have a 'thing' against trees. They don't like them. I guess they don't understand that a world without trees would not only be not very scenic, but the air quality would be even worse than it is now.
Two weeks ago they had a tree trimmer come by. 'Tawny, we're just going to take off a few branches, okay". Why tell me this? It's my tree and the branches were hanging over their fence.
Next time I looked out the tree trimmer had sawed off a limb, a whole big fat leaf bearing, shade giving limb. When I put on my mean face and confronted my neighbor (and the tree trimmer), 'we're not going to fall out about a tree are we?' she asked, her voice dripping with incredulousness. That's probably not even a word, probably spelled wrong, too. But you know what I mean. She couldn't believe I'd get worked up over a tree.
Call me crazy, but I love that tree. It gives me lots and lots of pleasure. It provides shade on my patio, it gives the squirrels a place to hang out, the birds too.
Living in a neighborhood, while it has some good points, it also has it's had points, too. This week it's been tough trying to find the good points.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
The only down side was that they started at 6am. Maybe you're up and ready to roll at 6am, even on a Saturday, but I'm not. Not any day.
I understand why they were at it early. Start early and you can finish the job in one day. It's a two story house with an addition in the back and an attached garage. That's a lot of shingles to take off and put back on. And it's supposed to be borderline hot today so the earlier you start the less time you have to sweat in the worst of the heat.
Next door to me, at the new neighbors, their dog was up early, too. From the moment they let the dog out to do it's business, until they open the door and let it back in the house, every single day, the darn critter yipes. Not barks, yipes. And it's not like the new neighbors bust their ass to let the dog back in. Nope. They let it yipe for 15 or 20 minutes.
And when they leave to go someplace, and they don't take the dog with them, the critter yipes from the moment they pull out of their driveway until the moment they pull back in, even if it's hours and hours and hours later.
On the other side of me, they have a 'thing' against trees. They don't like them. I guess they don't understand that a world without trees would not only be not very scenic, but the air quality would be even worse than it is now.
Two weeks ago they had a tree trimmer come by. 'Tawny, we're just going to take off a few branches, okay". Why tell me this? It's my tree and the branches were hanging over their fence.
Next time I looked out the tree trimmer had sawed off a limb, a whole big fat leaf bearing, shade giving limb. When I put on my mean face and confronted my neighbor (and the tree trimmer), 'we're not going to fall out about a tree are we?' she asked, her voice dripping with incredulousness. That's probably not even a word, probably spelled wrong, too. But you know what I mean. She couldn't believe I'd get worked up over a tree.
Call me crazy, but I love that tree. It gives me lots and lots of pleasure. It provides shade on my patio, it gives the squirrels a place to hang out, the birds too.
Living in a neighborhood, while it has some good points, it also has it's had points, too. This week it's been tough trying to find the good points.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
I Know It's Not Tuesday Today!
How do I know it's not Tuesday today, you ask? Because it's not raining! At least not yet. The weather man says it will later this afternoon, maybe even this evening, but for right now it's sunny and dry. Okay, a little hazy and definitely humid, but at least it's not raining.
I haven't given you any cooking tips in awhile so......
Last night I had some defrosted chicken legs with thighs attached (part of a bag from Walmart, 59 cents a pound) to cook for dinner. It felt like I'd hit a wall, I couldn't think of any way to prepare them. And then inspiration hit!
I cut up a huge onion and put it on the bottom of my 13x9 pan. I laid five chicken legs with thighs attached on top of that. Sprinkled the chicken with salt,, pepper and Mrs. Dash. Then poured a half stick of melted butter over it all. Into a 350 oven for two hours, basting it every so often.
When it was finished cooking, I removed the chicken from the pan, drained the juices in to a measuring cup and then poured off he 'fat'. The juices went into a saucepan and I added a can of (undiluted) cream of chicken soup. Whisking it together as I heated it up produced a nice sauce.
I had some left over rice from the night before. It was chicken and rice with sauce over all. Plus, a nice ripe tomato sliced and topped with crumbled feta cheese.
Dinner was very good and easy.
This was another episode of Cooking With Tawny brought to you by TMC Services (smile).
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
I haven't given you any cooking tips in awhile so......
Last night I had some defrosted chicken legs with thighs attached (part of a bag from Walmart, 59 cents a pound) to cook for dinner. It felt like I'd hit a wall, I couldn't think of any way to prepare them. And then inspiration hit!
I cut up a huge onion and put it on the bottom of my 13x9 pan. I laid five chicken legs with thighs attached on top of that. Sprinkled the chicken with salt,, pepper and Mrs. Dash. Then poured a half stick of melted butter over it all. Into a 350 oven for two hours, basting it every so often.
When it was finished cooking, I removed the chicken from the pan, drained the juices in to a measuring cup and then poured off he 'fat'. The juices went into a saucepan and I added a can of (undiluted) cream of chicken soup. Whisking it together as I heated it up produced a nice sauce.
I had some left over rice from the night before. It was chicken and rice with sauce over all. Plus, a nice ripe tomato sliced and topped with crumbled feta cheese.
Dinner was very good and easy.
This was another episode of Cooking With Tawny brought to you by TMC Services (smile).
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Is Today Tuesday?
If today is Tuesday, and I think it is, it is a rainy Tuesday in metro Detroit. It's been one of those on again, off again kind of rains. Just when you think it's over with, and it's okay to go out minus your rain gear, whoosh! here it comes again.
Rain isn't a bad thing. Well, not unless you had plans to go on a picnic, or you wanted to sun bathe, or.....Thankfully none of those things are on my list for today.
We can use the rain around here. The grass has been looking sort of parched. Not just mine, but everybody who doesn't water their lawn is in the same dry boat.
Last year the city of Detroit, the entity who controls water in the metro Detroit area, raised the price we pay for water. Significantly raised it, I might add. They said they had to because the demand/usage was up so high.
Many people, me included, cut back on our usage. I never was one to water the lawn, but I found other ways to lower my usage. I don't leave the water faucet running when I brush my teeth or wash my face. I take shorter length showers. I have a new toilet that doesn't use as much water in the flush cycle.
Etc.
So now guess what? The city of Detroit is raising the water rates. Again. Why? Because usage is down.
Aint that a load of crap? The consumer is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Be good and be careful, take care stay strong.
hugs,
Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Rain isn't a bad thing. Well, not unless you had plans to go on a picnic, or you wanted to sun bathe, or.....Thankfully none of those things are on my list for today.
We can use the rain around here. The grass has been looking sort of parched. Not just mine, but everybody who doesn't water their lawn is in the same dry boat.
Last year the city of Detroit, the entity who controls water in the metro Detroit area, raised the price we pay for water. Significantly raised it, I might add. They said they had to because the demand/usage was up so high.
Many people, me included, cut back on our usage. I never was one to water the lawn, but I found other ways to lower my usage. I don't leave the water faucet running when I brush my teeth or wash my face. I take shorter length showers. I have a new toilet that doesn't use as much water in the flush cycle.
Etc.
So now guess what? The city of Detroit is raising the water rates. Again. Why? Because usage is down.
Aint that a load of crap? The consumer is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Be good and be careful, take care stay strong.
hugs,
Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Monday, September 07, 2009
Happy Days Are Here Again!
Okay, this probably isn't going to mean too much of anything to you, but I am now able to post my own stuff to this blog!!
See what happened is this: About two weeks ago my trusty webtv, the new classic model (that's to distinguish it from the old or original classic model! that's webtv tech talk smile!) went on the blink and died. The consensus of the tech support team was that my video card died. They said it couldn't be repaired. I'll tell you, it was like a member of my family died!
So what I did was I bought a new webtv. Okay, not really a webtv. A msntv2. It's made by Microsoft, the same folks who designed/invented the webtv. And while this isn't a computer, it's more computer-like in that it is able to do so many more things than my webtv could.
This new unit, the msntv2, was free. I paid shipping and handling of just shy of $6.00. And I paid for one year's worth of service upfront, around $199.00. It's a refurbished unit with a one year warranty.
At first, while I was thrilled to be back on the internet, I was unhappy because, well, I'm always unhappy with new to me technology. But a few days later and I'm loving it.
And best of all, at least to me, is that I am able to post my own blog entries! Before TWG was always kind and gracious and posted for me, and that was wonderful. And some times I went to the library and used the computer and that was fine. But it burned me that I couldn't do it by myself from my home internet access appliance. I mean doggone it, I'm gone.
Well, this new msntv2 is a wonderful contraption. Yes indeedy! I am able to do this by myself from the comfort of my living room.
Isn't technology grand (smile)!
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
http://www.tawnyford.com/
See what happened is this: About two weeks ago my trusty webtv, the new classic model (that's to distinguish it from the old or original classic model! that's webtv tech talk smile!) went on the blink and died. The consensus of the tech support team was that my video card died. They said it couldn't be repaired. I'll tell you, it was like a member of my family died!
So what I did was I bought a new webtv. Okay, not really a webtv. A msntv2. It's made by Microsoft, the same folks who designed/invented the webtv. And while this isn't a computer, it's more computer-like in that it is able to do so many more things than my webtv could.
This new unit, the msntv2, was free. I paid shipping and handling of just shy of $6.00. And I paid for one year's worth of service upfront, around $199.00. It's a refurbished unit with a one year warranty.
At first, while I was thrilled to be back on the internet, I was unhappy because, well, I'm always unhappy with new to me technology. But a few days later and I'm loving it.
And best of all, at least to me, is that I am able to post my own blog entries! Before TWG was always kind and gracious and posted for me, and that was wonderful. And some times I went to the library and used the computer and that was fine. But it burned me that I couldn't do it by myself from my home internet access appliance. I mean doggone it, I'm gone.
Well, this new msntv2 is a wonderful contraption. Yes indeedy! I am able to do this by myself from the comfort of my living room.
Isn't technology grand (smile)!
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
http://www.tawnyford.com/
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