YOU ALWAYS CAN FIND FRIENDS ON THE BEACH

This friendly fellow is saving my beach spot for me next week ...... "he" (or she) is an endangered rock iguana and is the only inhabitant found on Little Water Cay (island) just east of Providenciales.  They were almost wiped out totally by the growth of dog and cat populations on the other Turks and Caicos  "Cays". But here, on their own little private island .... you know some scabbie developer would just love to get his hands on this virgin sand .... they are protected and flourish with a 98% survival rate!

Tourists ... of which I plan to be in 2 weeks ........ of the non-furry kind can come and visit and pay the admission that goes to help protect them.

IRRITATING CRAP MY HUSBAND DOES ....... OR THE MAN THAT THINKS I'M HIS GIRL FRIDAY .... a working title

It never fails .... almost every time I sit in front of the computer .... just to sit and read and respond to "fun" web sites and email instead of the email I handle at work all day like firing off  ..... the " you are in notice of noncompliance" moron!, ...... the "what exactly do you think you are gonna do on my construction site" moron!, ...... the "you did what?" moron!, ...... the "you want what? moron! ..... and my favorite .... the "why can't you boys quit acting like a bunch of girls and get along" morons!!!  .... sigh !  (please note: the "moron" part is not written, only merely implied. I am nothing but professional .... to the morons)  ....  such the life as a female construction manager! Then I come home to a new job!  That of GOO's Admin Assistant !!!!

While I'm at the computer doing my "fun" surfing,  I hear the orders ...... oh no I know I'm in trouble ......... from the "Boss" on the living room couch while watching .........
Old reruns of GUNSMOKE/THE RIFLEMAN/BONANZA/BIG VALLEY. "Hey, lookup" ...... 
How old this old actor is?

If this actor is alive?

If this actor is still working?

When this actor died?

THE NEWS HOUR. "Hey, lookup" ........

This person's obituary?

And see if I heard my old friend’s house was on fire maybe?

One of my ex-employees was on the 5 PM news. See what they did?

ADS AND DISCOVERY CHANNEL you become the TICKET OBTAINER & GENERAL FACT CHECKER. "Hey, lookup" ........

To see if we can get tickets for this concert ? …. as in Artist I never knew he liked or comedian I never heard of .... AND put it on MY credit card !

What is winning the grossest scene Poll on the "Walking Dead" site .... like I want to know that!!!

The lyrics to this song or when it came out or who sang it .... is there a game of "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE" going on in the living room or are you the "phone a friend"? 

What time that store closes … also see if it tells you if they carry this random/weird item? ... next you are going to want me to go and get it ................. aren't you?

See if this is true urban legend or history trivia ? ..... really really ???

Have I mentioned my GOO is on disability and is home .... except for a few Dr appts during the week .... ALLLLLLLL day.

Apparently,  no one can get to the facts like I can!

COULD I BE NEXT???

I just want to know  ..... choice of words where they actually fit  .... WTF do you have to do to get yourself  FIRED from a blog .... a blog .... not a TV show  .... A BLOG !!!   AND you can tell the guy who runs the site was mad! His letter to his members was just full of "I am soooo PISSED off at this beeotch!".  No one on a web site can really see your true self. Only what you want them to see but apparently it is coming out what her issues were:

•  Not quite giving unique advice to her end of the real "deals". Example: One of her suggestions were to subscribe/download to Coupon Cabin to the members of  ....... Coupon Cabin ..... Who did she think was reading her column?
• Making demands for things like security.  YES ITS TRUE, TRUE, ALLLLL TRUE .... we bloggers have that pesky fanatical fan problem. Mine are lying in wait for me at "Bottom Dollar"as I type. 
• She was making things up to enhance her column. Some of us don't have to. 

So from me and MY "support staff" we thank you for reading! 

Photo Credit: Laura Cavanaugh/Getty

NOTHING SAYS HALLOWEEN COSTUME LIKE A SESAME STREET CHARACTER

GOOOOOD NEWS THIS HALLOWEEN LADIES!!! 

You are NOT just limited to buying the sexy witch, the almost bare breasted nurse or a tightly corseted pirate costume! It is the year we have all been waiting for. Finally, costume makers are expanding their horizons in women's Halloween costume choices! 

This year you can be a seductive BERT, a belly baring ERNIE or a naughty sleek and slim BIG BIRD in spandex!

What ....  oh what should I chose?

ITS FIVE O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE

"Somewhere" for me will be the Infinity Bar ..... yes that is a bar ......  at Grace Bay Resort in Providenciales .... Turks and Caicos in case you forgot ..........  in 35 DAYS ......  I'll have a margarita for you!

VOTE 2012

I know as an ideal well informed American voter I should watch this tonight .... I just can't! 

Debates are  ...wellll ... boring. AND they lie.  They both will make stuff up to get their point across. I CAN NOT STAND THAT ABOVE ALL ELSE. WHY? Why do they have to do this? .... for the few applause they receive when they one up the other guy ...... is that what winning a debate is all about? Beside there always the fact checkers ready to pounce and it will be published tomorrow by all the news agencies who spun the biggest and most whoppers ...............  SO in an effort to not dislike my already chosen candidate I shall refrain from watching something where I will think less of him .... that and there is a new episode of GHOST HUNTERS is on at the same time.

HARVEST MOON

I've been very busy lately with my "HARVEST MOON" dinner tomorrow night.  Oh yes, Saturday, September 29th is a Harvest Moon .... and what is a HARVEST MOON DINNER? Something I started with my family .... actually it is supposed to be any FULL MOON that falls on a weekend ..... an excuse to get together with family and friends. I'll fess up .... I actually saw the idea in Better Homes & Gardens years ago. Everyone looked so festive ...... in the posed pictures .......  to be out in the crisp autumn evening air ...... probably freezing their asses off ......... 

As I have said before, Fall is my favorite season! And it is quite possible I decorate more for Fall than Christmas  ..... wellllll there is that (2) tree thing going on in my home ..... regardless my Fall Harvest decor will be up for 2+ months.

ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER PROVIDENCIALES PICTURE

OOOoooooh no that's not me on beach YET! 54 days to go .........

Here is your Link Daughter TURKS AND CAICOS BLOG

IRRITATING CRAP MY HUSBAND DOES OR THE MAN THAT DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP ALREADY!!! .... A WORKING TITLE

End of next month I have a big test for my engineering state licensing. I find very little time to actually study .... oh what about now? Can't you see I'm busy .... AND I need pretty close to total silence. I was never one of those who had to have a radio on blasting to study like so many of my peers.

Recently, I have been reading books on the "T" ..... local subway system to some ..... every once in while there are two obnoxious people behind me carrying on some nonsensical conversation just to hear themselves ..... and everyone else around them ...... talk about totally or disgustingly nothing! That would never be my GOO!

GOO is a man of few trivial words. He has no patience for silly conversations and will usually find a way to end them fast. However, our poor disabled little GOO man is home allll week by himself. When the weekend comes and I'm home, he keeps insisting we go somewhere, we do something ... spend money on garden gnomes .... breakfast, lunch, dinner .... even festivals ..... he never did a festival the whole time I've known him!!!

Last Saturday we were taking a long drive ... an hour there and an hour back .... TWO HOURS OF STUDYING I SAID TO MYSELF. I announced to GOO I would be doing just that. So, I brought my BIG book to the car and settled down to concentrate on Differential Equations and Logarithms. Suddenly .......  I hear a voice talking to me about inane subjects .... is that GOO? .... grass cutting, the house going up for sale across the street, what's for dinner ..... five minutes into the car ride and I had to remind him of my planned study time. Of course,  he got all indignant ... it wasn't like my study opportunity was a secret BEFORE we got in the car !!!!!! What did he think I was doing with the 10 lb, five inch thick book?

 OK so he's mad .... at least he is quiet. ...... BUT WAIT ... he turns up the radio .... I won't let it shake my concentration while I differentiate this equation ..... he starts singing with the song "Free Falling" .... to find the velocity and position of this imaginary particle of matter in a three dimensional system only knowing the acceleration  .... oh know he is harmonizing with Tom Petty on the chorus ....... of a gravitational system that obviously cannot be earth's and  ................  

SHUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUPPPP!!!!!!!!

My book is on the floor but I can definitely say there was total silence.

THE HYPOCRITE’S GUIDE TO HEALTHY

Still holding at that 20 lb weight loss .... just can't seem to stay on the FULL diet ..Hhhhmmmmm ..... could be another topic for irritating crap my husband does ..... maybe next time.

Things I have discovered why I can't get motivated ...

1. I have a new wardrobe!  I'm wearing things now that have been in my closet so long my co-workers have never seen them. So they think I bought a new clothes, right?
2. I am feeling better! The walk up hill to work from the trolley or around my job sites has been more effortlessly. My arthritic hip, knee, back don't bother me as much and can bend over to tie my shoes without doing an expert Hatha Yoga position. 
3. People are noticing! 20 lbs yeah sure ... who wouldn't? MEN THAT'S WHO! Don't get the wrong idea ....  I'm not out there trying to get a date.  Now let me explain, I work mostly with men. Now you know they would never mention it to me BUT they will talk amongst themselves. I been told there has been talk!

I am determined ..... no matter how many days it takes ..... to get back on that diet!

WHEN U DIE .... deep thoughts

Okay I admit I had a few drinks tonight and being a holiday I had my father over who loves nothing more than reminiscing about his younger days .... he got me thinking ....... aside from the remember when, what and who stories do you ever think about who will remember YOU when you are gone?  How many lives can I touch before I'm gone, enough that they would want to "come visit me"? DEEEP STUFF MAN!!!

My maternal and paternal grandmother have me and my children.  My grandfather .... on mom's side ... had her and her brother .... both now gone and I never met my Mom's dad. I know where he is buried 'cause Mom  took me there in my preteen years. Do my cousins know where this place is? They were closer to him but I went there after my mom died and could tell, no one has been there in years. His flat heastone was nearly grown over by the lawn. My dad ..... who was with me ..... and I ripped it all back to reveal his stone again with our bare hands ..... kinda creepy ehh?

WHO will come visit ME?

Time to look ahead

Its September 1 .... 70 days till vacation .... I found a blog site today from someone who lives on Providenciales island in the Turks and Caicos and posts pictures of everyday life on Providenciales  .... one of many I will share ... Its the view from the so-called "dive" .... and I don't mean with a tank ...... bar called HORSE EYE JACKS

I think I found the place I will be eating dinner the first day ................

I LOVE a full moon  ...... so mystical ... I feel all witchy.  Tonight is a Blue MOon  ... No it is not really blue ....

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

I'm sure you have heard the saying or used it when you were telling your husband the next time he could buy another garden GNOME .... whew thank God I didn't say that ..... a blue moon is merely in our urban tale-ology the full moon that happens twice in a month. Astrologically, it is the the 3rd full moon in a season with four full moons .... don't ask me what that one is called .... Either way it won't happen again till 2015 !

And in honor of Neil Armstrong (buried today) his family asks for those who see tonight's moon to wink at it to remember him by.

Someone at work said she had her oranges ready .... I didn't get either .... for the Beer silly ..... I prefer wine so I'll toast Neil !!!

I'M GOING THERE ......

Time for a vacation picture aaaaaaaahhhhhh.....

Okay it is not the pool at my beach house. It is however the house in front of it .......... Close enough !!!!

I WANNA GO THERE

THERE IS Grace Bay on the island Providenciales of the Turks and Caicos! Imagine yourself swimming in water so clear you can see every shark coming at you for miles .... admit it you think about it.   I could use a vacation ...... hmmmmm let me see ... let me see ......  husband luke warm about the beach scene .......  I see recession has hit the here too ...... little more affordable than the last time I looked at this place ........ five hours flight ... sick hubby can do that he says ! ........ What hotel price is good ....... hmmmm what is this? A new web site with rental houses ..... Found good deal for beach house .... One last thing ....... Tell hubby there is a CASINO .............................. WE'RE IN !!!!!!

 I have been looking at this place for about FIVE years .... We are going in November!  Until then I shall torture you all with pictures of my future destination. We shall start with this one  ...... That will be me in that snorkel gear in 3 months ..... hmmmm I better stick to the diet to get into that bikini!!!