My OMG Moment Of The Day On The Indy 500…As A Woman

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Chicken is in the oven. Potatoes are ready to be mashed. Veggies just need to be steamed. Yes, it is a good day in my house this Memorial Day weekend. As I am working in the kitchen I can hear my darling husband and intelligent son from where they are sitting in the family room watching the Indy 500. I catch bits and pieces of their conversation,

My boys: “Do some of these guys leave right after the race and go to other races?”    blah, blah, blah.

My boys: “Look, those 1st and 2nd place cars are from the same team, do they help each other out in that situation?”   blah, blah, blah.

My boys: “Does Danika still race in this? Didn’t she go to Nascar? Well, where ever she went she is fine to look at.”   blah, blah, blah.

Well, now they are stuck on Danika and all of her fineness. 

My boys: ”Do you think she still races at all?”   blah, blah, blah.

My boys: “You would think that this would be a sport that women could actually compete in on more of a physical level.”   I decide to interject because I actually saw a show on this.

Me:  “I think I read an article awhile back that said that driving a race car was grueling.  It requires a lot of muscle strength and you sweat like crazy…I don’t think a lot of women could do that.”

Okay, women, this is where you are going to share my OMG moment with me whether you believe what I just said or not…

My boys:  “You’re telling me that a woman ‘can go through 36 hours of intense labor’ and they can’t drive a race car?  I don’t ever want to hear how grueling it is to have a baby again; I don’t believe it.”

Me:  “OMG.  You are so,..”  words elude me. 

Men just don’t get us.   But then I’d rather look at the male in this photo instead of Danika anyway….

Ha.

later,

from the mind of…

Remembering Our Heroes

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Who do I think of when Memorial Day weekend comes around every year?  My dad.  My Marine hero who faught valiantly at Iwo Jima, Guam, and in the Battle of Okinawa.  Twice injured, twice he insisted on returning to his company; metal plate in his head to keep a bullet from slipping into his brain and a bullet to his chest that went out his back.  That is how he lived his life.  Giving everything to serve those that he loved. And he loved America and everything she stood.

I miss my father.  He died in September of 1997.  And I am happy for that.  What this country is being transformed slowly into is not what he fought for.  He would be sickened by it.  The lives that were lost during World War II, the Korean War, Viet Name, the Gulf Wars, the Iraq War and the Afghanistan war (not to mention the smaller wars in countries that never get reported on) need to be have been given up for a reason.  If we allow our current President to continue in the path of destruction of the United States that he and his Democratic cronies have us spirally into, their lives will have been lost for no reason.  That is a horrible realization to come to.  Immoral.

Save this country.  Vote for someone else in November other than the man who is sitting in our Oval office now.  The man who wants to strip our military of funds that it needs to operate on.  That God for a Republican House who voted to keep it.  Let’s see where that gets vetoed.

It is a sad day for Americans.  There is no joy in this Memorial Day for me as I remember the injuries my father suffered and those who have served in the armed forces to protect us.

God Save America.

later,

from the mind of…

How Many Social Security Numbers For One Person Is Too Many?

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I would have to go with two, Bob.  Could someone please inform our President of this?  Here are just a few that have been linked with President Obama and his addresses that he resided at while in college in different states.  Why would he not have a social security card issued from Hawaii?  Interesting question.

Thanks so much!

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