NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!

I have a new email address:



tawny_ford@yahoo.com



hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com

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

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

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

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