Out with the Crap-In with the "S*$t"

We finally broke down and went green. This old clunker air conditioner has been around since I was in 6th grade. 1974, I was ending my fifth grade year at Divinney Elem, in Lakewood, Colorado. The house we live in was built that year.

We got an excellent deal on this new and improved energy efficient model and we bought a new energy efficient furnace too. We have done our part in celebrating earth day.


God Bless Planet Earth.

Guess Who Does What?

This is a funny quiz that the manager of this blog thought to put to the test....

Below you will find 2 photos. You must guess who's homework belongs to whom. There will be no clues given. You must deduct the answer for yourself.

Chemisty 481

Cornrows 101

Multiple choice

1. Jordan- Chemistry, Malaina- Cornrows

2.Malaina- Chemistry, Jordan- Cornrows



Leave your answer in the comments section. Do not cheat.

California Here I Come....

Malaina 21 years ago.

Malaina age 18

Did I mention I was proud of my daughter Malaina? Here is her senior picture taken way back 4 long years ago. She graduated with honors and was 8th in her class. But her class was only 22 kids, so still in the top. But you gotta know what kind of kids she went to school with! They were all over achievers of whom most were Asian, and very competitive! So props for coming in 8th.

Malaina is now finishing up her senior year at Brigham Young University. She is majoring in Biology with a Music Minor. She has played classical guitar since she was 8. Malaina will be 22 in May...hey wait....that's next month!!!!!

Here is a back shot of Malaina studying for some sort of Biology class.

Here is the type of stuff she likes and wants to work on for the rest of her life.
Actually this is just for her plant physiology elective class, or her ecology class or her Organic Bio Chemistry class or something like that. If you have some sort of idea what this stuff is leave a comment.

Malaina was raised the middle child between 2 other sisters. (Who are all kinda cute) This photo was taken about 5 years ago. Malaina is in the pink on the left.

I just wanted to say what a grrreaat daughter she is. She has worked very hard for good grades and now all that is going to start paying off as she moves away from home in August for a 5 year period to attend USC. She will be getting a full scholarship and even a cost of living stipend to help her so she won't have to work as she studies for her Ph.D in Molecular Biology. Malaina has NEVER given us any reason not to trust her. She always makes good choices and I know she will be a great success at the University of Southern California. May the sun always shine and the rain never fall Malaina! (p.s she hates the cold)

Zynga Cafe World Fix

There are a lot of people who have asked for this fix. Good luck and forward this to them if necessary. Cynthia

Hello Cyntia, Thank you for contacting Zynga Support. Cyntia, I am sorry to hear that you are not able to load the game. Here are a few simple solutions that you can try troubleshooting the issue. In many instances of this issue, clearing the browser and flash cache memory helped many of our customers. Hence, I would strongly recommend that you clear your cache memory as the primary troubleshooting step. For a detailed explanation on what cache is and why you should clean it, please visit our online web document, http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/929. The following web documents will help you in cache memory clearing: 1. How to clear cache: - Click here: http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/49 2. How to clear flash cache: - Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html - Select the "Delete all sites" button. This will clear old information that your computer may be storing. 3. How to do a full refresh of my browser: - Hold down the CTRL key and press the F5 button at the same time. Completing these steps may enable you to quickly resolve your issue and return to your game play. This has helped many of our customers with this issue. If you have cleared your cache memory, and you notice that the issue persists, please follow these steps below. 1. Download the latest flash player, if you are not already currently using it: - Click here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP 2. Remove the Cafe World application. - Click here for instructions: http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/280 Note: Removing and reinstalling the game within 90 days will not reset the game status or the game progress. 3. Restart your computer. 4. Log back in to your social network and re-add the Cafe World application. You will not lose your progress because your game progress is saved on our servers. If you continue to experience problems, we will need detailed information to investigate the issue. Please specify us the instructions that you followed and you may also include screenshots to illustrate us the issue. This will help us to understand more about the issue: 1. How to take a screen shot: - Click here for instructions: http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/106 Note: Sometimes, screenshots in BMP file format were sent to us and they were discarded due to file size restrictions. I recommend that you send your screenshot in JPEG file format. If we can be of any assistance with this issue, please feel free to reply us in detail. You are valued at Zynga and we will strive providing you with effective and consistent support. Best, Sandra S Zynga Customer Support
Customer (Cyntia Gaddis)	03/23/2010 01:20 PM
Heading to Cafe/ Stuck Wallpaper bug. This bug has caused me to be locked out of my cafe for days. Any fix coming?
Question Reference #100323-009598
Product Level 1: Café World Product Level 2: Facebook Category Level 1: Technical Date Created: 03/23/2010 01:20 PM Last Updated: 03/23/2010 01:40 PM Status: Answered

Hair Matters

My hair had gotten so long that I was ready to cut it myself. My hairdresser is popular, she is always booked a few weeks out. I was calling, and emailing for a mercy appointment, but it wasn't going to happen.

Finally the day came. Everyone was coming home with pretty hair cuts and color except me

Here is Malaina at a guitar ensemble performance. Note the pretty hair.

Now just look at the new colors of these two lovelies.

I especially like the fire engine red of this sunset photo of Jordan.

Christina looks great as a brunette with blond tips. Just a fabulous cut and color.

Jordan is outraged that I took a picture of her en deshabille' at the Courtyard in St. George last weekend.

And here is the magician, my friend and hairdresser Suzanne Benson Saleem.
You can reach her at the Haven Salon here :
801-379-0540

359 W 100 S Provo, UT 84601

YouTube - Bon Jovi Living on a Prayer

So it has been almost a month since my last post. I feel I owe and explanation.

Number One. I don't like to post without pictures.

Number Two. My camera got wet.

Number Three. My life has been empty without the camera.

Number Four. And my life has been kinda boring lately.....but

Now that she is fixed and perfect. And now that I have a cool video to post The Glad Housewife is reborn!!!!
YouTube - Bon Jovi Living on a Prayer
Click on the highlighted text above to watch my video.

All good readers of this corny blog know that I am a nut for Jon Bon Jovi. (with good reason, he's a fox) But, he is really an awesome performer. As this amateur video can attest. You will notice people of all ages in this video. On lady was there with her granddaughter. Very nice.

Dave gave me this awesome concert as a Valentine gift, and we really made a weekend out of it. He withdrew money from savings, for me to play with and spend, took me to Wolfgang Puck to eat, and got us a room at the Luxor. What a man.


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Happy Day of Love to All

Christina and her cute guy Brandon celebrate Valentine's day with a cheese pizza. Now that is my kind of gift.

Brandon's mom is always worried about Christina's vegetarianism. She is trying to get her to eat salmon all the time. Her reasoning is..."they are going to die anyway!". So she gave her a chocolate fish to encourage her in giving fish a try.

Now this is the type of fish Christina will eat!

I had to visit the dentist last week and he numbed my upper lip and nose. This is how I looked most of the day. I went all over the mall looking like this. When I got to Macy's the girls up at the shoe counter said I looked like Angelina Jolie, and they liked how I did my lips.

So, on that happy note, I leave you with my cute pucker above and wish you a very happy weekend.

Jazz-tastic Time!!

Look...Life goes on. Wow! Steve and Dana Daly, old and dear friends from early Intel days invited us to go with them to the Jazz game tonight. Boy, did we need that!!!

The burdens of late, have been postponed at least for now. This is a great photo of me and Dave, the sweetest, studliest guy in the whole arena!!!

Dana is one of those girlfriends that you can say anything to. Nothing is off limits! We first met about 15 years ago when our husbands were financial analysts at Intel in American Fork. We all went to lunch at McDonald's and the rest is history.

Dave now works for Steve at Landesk. They also work out every morning at the gym and they plan on making a big REVEAL of their efforts in the Spring.

Now anyone who knows me and reads this blog, knows I do not go to an event without posting a people watching picture. These ones were too good not to post here. "Way to go, not so hot guy, getting the blond lady to smile at you."

Hope you can see the fun in these photos. It was so nice to spend some rare time with these friends. I appreciate all they have done for us, and the love and care they show.

Tribute for Shawna

Shawna Barker Rollins
1959-2010

It is said that Shawna never met a stranger. It is true! She was an instant success in the art of "friendly". Shawna was full of mischief, and silliness. We have lots of zany memories of her. A favorite one is when we were spray paining the wrought iron stairs railing in our house black, all of us had black mustaches after it was done. Shawna immediately began imitating Hitler in an almost "Lucille Ball"-esqe fashion. We died laughing. I have pictures of it around here somewhere.

Summertime is going to be hard to get through without her. We loved seeing her in her shorts being pulled by Brody her dog who easily out weighed her by 20 pounds. Well, Shawna is with Brody now' cause he went home 2 months ago.

We are going to miss you dear friend. You are really home now, and I know you are happy there.

Just a Note

My dear friends, I am in mourning for my darling neighbor who passed away this morning. It has been a terrible last few days for my dear friend and neighbor who is left without his beloved wife. God will is done and she is back at His feet playing with all her little pets she has cared for over the years.

I know my grammar is bad, but my brain is a bit mushy. It is late, and I am heartbroken.
I do have to say that the Lord has been by my side literally holding me up by the elbows. More to follow.But, I will post soon.

Advise Taken

Today I was given good advise on how to handle some of my OCD thoughts. There is a difference between anxiety, and Obsessive thoughts. Anxiety can be productive, and help you function, or figure out a problem in a healthy manner. Obsession is a great big argument with yourself. Thinking about a problem you have no control over, and then turning it into bigger issues, and then running the record over and over in your brain, and getting no results but more and more obsessive thoughts.

And then there is the dangerous Anxiety that can be debilitating; a total loss of the ability to function in a healthy manner because of limitations/ or expectations you have burdened yourself with through the years. This type of anxiety can lead to many problems. I won't list all of my problems here. But I would like to write down, (with advise from my doc) some of the obsessive thoughts and then put them away for the night.

Today my dear friend, and next door neighbor has had a massive coronary, and has fallen into a coma. Obviously my thoughts are turned to her. My heart is in my throat, and I feel totally helpless. I cannot do a thing to change her health. I cannot fix her heart, or bring her out of her coma. I cannot bring down her blood pressure, or explain to her grandbabies why Grandma is near death. I can pray for Shawna and her dear husband Brad, and I can show them my love, by visiting, and being there for her.

I can only do what I can do; keep a prayer in my heart and turn it over to God. Lord be with my dear friends. Keep Shawna in the hollow of thy hand. Help me to be a good neighbor and to turn my attention toward the care of my family. Lord help me keep my anxiety at a minimum, and my thoughts turned to thee for thy help in dealing with my troubled heart/mind tonight.

Bowl of Blessings

For many months now I have kept a bowl on the kitchen counter like that pictured above. In fact this is my picture. Sometimes it has cherry tomatoes, sometimes it has grapes, sometimes it has granola bars, or nuts. I have found that my family really uses this bowl. Instead of going for junk food, (which I rarely buy), they are used to these kinds of choices. If they want junk they have to go out of the house to get it.

Now, I still make goodies, and Saturday is free day, I am still addicted to bread and butter, and Oh my gosh, chocolate covered Riesen's candy, that Brandon's mother gave to Jordan for her birthday! I like to pretend that a Michelin star chef is going to ring my doorbell and offer to cook dinner from the ingredients I have on hand. Right now he/she will find the best cheeses, pastas, and veggies. Prime cuts of venison, beef, chicken and pork. Shell fish, nuts and every spice you could possibly want. Oh, and homemade Lemon Curd, and Sage Honey from AdreAnn. Yes!!!

Not to toot my own horn....but TOOT...TOOT.

Thank you dear Lord, for our bounty, and the blessings of plenty, shelter, clean water, medicine, family, health, and LOVE. Heavenly Father please be with those of my brothers and sisters who need thee. In Jesus' name Amen.

Forever Home

Last weekend Jordan and I snuck away for an awesome weekend to Best Friends. We have come out of mourning for our darling Sugar, and we all felt it was time to adopt 2 new kitties. I feel 2 cats for our family is best, because they can play with each other when we are gone, and if something happens to one of them, one of them is still left to love.

The reason I chose Best Friends to adopt from is because they are a no kill shelter, and I am a member. Unless an animal comes in, in unsurvivable condition, they will rehabilitate and keep the cat in a cattery, like the one shown below. All these cats have free access to indoor and outdoor rooms.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

It is located in Kanab, and between them and the BLM they own 43,000 acres that look like this!

The cats are cared for by wonderful cat lovers like the ones in this photo. Our cat Keegan is being loved and bid adieu by these nice people who came in especially just to see him off. The caregivers are angels on earth caring for and loving God's creatures. Some of the conditions some of these cats were found in were deplorable. Some have been beaten, starved, crammed in cages, or abandoned. So when one of their cats is adopted into a Forever Home, it is bittersweet for them. They truly love the cats, and are sad to see them leave, but soooo happy they are going home.
Keegan the gray cat was found in a deserted barn by the US Forest Service along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. They brought him to Best Friends. The Forest Service thinks he was in that barn for a few days without food or water. Best Friends takes the cat, isolates him for 2 weeks, is given medical care then neutered. He is then put in with the other cats and watched to see how well he integrates. Keegan was thought to be about 8-9 months old. He was a favorite of the caregivers and a loving and sweet boy.
Dean, the orange tabby, was abandoned when he was about 10 days old. He had lots of problems, but was lovingly cared for and socialized and has the most adorable face. It has been fun to welcome these two new boys into our family. We are they type of family who needs pets. The girls and I especially love cats. So thanks goes out to our BEST FRIENDS who rescued these cats so we could bring them home to live with us for many, many years.

This is not a Happy Ending...this is just the Beginning of Happily Ever After.

Eyelids are so Sad

My mother commented on my sad eyes in some of the last photos I posted. Thanks Mom! It is settled, my 2010 surgery is going to be eyelid surgery!!!!

Eyelid surgery

My father has such saggy eyelids that his vision is impeded by 70% and insurance is going to cover the cost.

I will be tucking money away, and investigating surgeons here in my area. I would like to know what your opinions about cosmetic surgery are. Vote at my poll or leave a comment here.

Aloha and Mahalo Hawaii

I will let the photo's speak for themselves!