9/11/2014 The Drive Home after a long day of working it.

iPod chose this for the ride home...

                                         Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

                                                                Parralox - Isn't it Strange

                                                              Erasure - Crown of thorns

                                                                Pet Shop Boys - Before

                                                         Savage Garden - I Want You

Today, I didn't have too much to do on the phone.  Not much overflow from the billing phone team, so decided to hook up to iPod and listen to some music (Yeah they have the Disputes Team taking Billing Phone Calls, like we ain't got nothing to do just endless streams of disputes - Oh Well pays the bills).  Here is what iPod gave to me to listen to while I was working on New Pending Disputes.

                                                  Madonna - Candy Perfume Girl

                                           Robbie Williams - Making Plans For Nigel

                                                          NIN- We're in this Together

                                             Deep Dish/Stevie nicks - Dreams (Axwell Remix)

                                                             James Blunt - No Bravery

                                              Darren Hayes - The heart wants what it wants

                                                            Boy George - Everything I own

                                                          Bjork - Declare Independence

                                                Depeche Mode - Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)

                                                               Kings of Leon - Tonight

                                                       The Fixx - Two Different Views

                                                                     Muse - Resistance

                                                                 The Fixx - Saved By Zero

9/11/2014 The Drive into Work

iPod started my day off with the drive in consisting of..

                                                 Concrete Blonde - City Screaming 

                                 Florence and the Machine - What the Water Gave Me

 
                                         Coldplay/Morgan Page - White Shadows (Bootleg remix) 

                                                            Everlast - Speak No Evil 

                                                    Wilson Phillips - Reason To Believe

So these were the tunes fueling my morning drive into work.  Traffic wasn't that bad, but I sure wish some of these idiots would go back to driving school.

Starting Something New

I have soo much music, over 260 GB n my PC and tons of CD's, Cassettes, Albums, etc.  I have loaded over 90 GB's onto my iPod Classic 160 GB .  This is what I listen to while I am in the car.  Going to work, From work, to the grocery store, etc.  I always listen to it on shuffle.  I am now going to post what iPod has conjured up for me to hear while I am out and about. 

I will also try to find the videos on the You Tube and post them here so you too and join in and listen to the great music the awe inspiring iPod is having me listen to.

In Honor of a Hero

HERO - Douglas M. Hendrix Sr.

This is my dad.  He past away Nov.2012 after a long battle with Cancer.  It has been over a year since his passing and it still feels like it just happened.  I may live half a country away from him and didn't see him as often as I would have liked, but he was always on my mind and every day I feel the world is worse off without him in it. 

As you can tell from the picture above, my dad was in the military.  The USMC (United States Marine Corps.) to be more specific.  He believed in the motto Semper Fidelis and loved his Marine Corps. with faithful abandon.  He carried over the marine corp. motto into his personal life as well as he was Always Faithful to his family.

He met my mother, Margaret Hendrix, by chance, as I have led to believe.  His best friend from school was going out on a date with my mothers best friend.  They set up my parents up and they all went out on a double date.  They hit it off, but then my dad shipped out.  He didn't call my Mom.  She though he was gone.  She eventually got a letter from him as he was overseas and had shipped out.  In this letter he professed his love for her, she wrote back and confirmed her love for him.  Even though she was not 100% sure, she knew he was special.  When he got back to the states in 1963, they got married.

 

 

Wow, it was as if they knew they were meant to be together.  They had two children together, Dianne and myself.  There was a lot of love in the house.  A lot of strife too, but love was always there.

 

My Dad ended up serving two tours in Viet-Nam.  He was injured from a Grenade blast, but it was not a major injury.  He went out on patrols looking for the Viet Kong (he never told my Mom this until well after he has retired).  He was also a light weight boxer in the Marines as well.  However, his main job in the military was working in the Motor Pool.  I remember him always working on engines.  He really knew what he was doing with an automobile and the military vehicles.

While in the military, he got the chance to travel.  He lugged us along and we all enjoyed the adventure.  We lived in North Carolina, Philadelphia, Albany, Ga., and Hawaii.  It was always fun moving from one place to the next.  Always got to make new friends.  The last move from Hawaii back to Albany, Ga. was out last.  He retired once we got back to the states because his reenlistment was not legal somehow.  I am still not sure about that.

 



 

After the military, he eventually got a job with the Civil Service on the Marine Corps. base in Albany, Ga. He continued serving his country and the Marine Corp.  We were not rich, by no means, but I never felt like we were poor.  He worked very hard, as did my Mom, to make sure I didn't know what poor meant.  You see, when my Dad grew up, they were poor and he knew it.  I never got too many stories about how hard it was or what he went through.  Much later in life, I heard about how poor they were when he was small and he played it down.  I think those experiences made him strive to make it better for his kids.  I never appreciated all the sacrifices that both of them made for me.  Later in life I did, but as a kid and adolescent I didn't think that they made sacrifices. 

 

He is missed deeply by his family and the many people who knew him through the years.  He touched many lives and those he touched were better for it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Pets

I am going to add pictures and back story to how we came to get our loving gang of cats.  Each one is special to Glenn (Sam) and I.  Some more than others.  Each cat has come to us on their own as they were all strays or abandoned kittens and cats.  Most of them kittens.
We also take care of several Alley Cats in our neighborhood that have been abandoned by people moving in and out of the area.  I really don't understand how a person can just leave an animal that they took into their lives to care for.  You really have to have low moral character to do that.  OK..enough..on with the introductions......

Devon

Devon came to us as a kitten.  His mother, we call her Mama Kitty, still lives outside and we take care of her.  Actually she is closed up in our bathroom right now as she got sick and lost a lot of weigh.  We are nursing her back to health.  He was the runt of her litter of 4.  He was really sick, but we didn't know that when Sam caught him.  Out of the 5 of them, he was caught first..all because he was hungry.  We had him for a week in the house and he wouldn't calm down and let us hold him or nothing.  He kept hollering for him Mama and siblings.  Finally he gave in and again it was his stomach that did him in!!  We went out to eat at Corner Cafe.  We brought a Banana Split Pie back with us.  I was sitting on the couch and up my leg he climbed.  Sat on my lap..looked at the pie and then directly into my eyes.  I fell in love that instant.  He is my booger bear now.  He ate that ENTIRE piece of pie...fruit crust and all.  The piece of pie was bigger than him.  I noticed at that time that he had a raspiness sound when he was breathing.  I thought oh he has a cold.  So we were feeding him really good and giving him chicken broth and everything.  I notice a week later he had LOST weight and not gained.  I knew then that something was wrong.  I took him to "Pet Care" vet on Independence Ave.  I didn't like that guy at all.  He did pull out a worm just as long as Devon was.  He was ate up with them.  So got Meds for him and asked the Vet about the sound when he breathes...he said just a cold.  Devon and I left and he was hurting.  The vet was too rough with sticking that thermometer up his little butthole.  For three weeks Devon had butt problems because of that man.  He anally raped my kitty is what he did.  Several more worms came out during the next week.  The breathing got worse, so I went to the Avenue Vet right down from the house and that guy is wonderful.  Devon had Pneumonia.  Got antibiotics and now Devon is well.  Still a runt, but Jeez he has the longest skinniest tail I have ever seen on a cat.  He has just, finally, gone through his adolescent stage where he was cock of the block and he didn't want to be held.  He is settling down lately, but still runs from Glenn.  HAHA.

Blinky

Blinky is one of Devon's siblings.  He is a character.  To this day, we cannot touch him.  He lays next to us, just outta reach.  He will lay at our feet and sometimes play with them or lick them.  Just don't try to touch him.  He freaks out and runs.  He's a good cat other than that.  He has had no health problems.  He was the second caught from his family.
The others, Sebastian, Amanda, and Mama, were all captured...taken to the vet...given shots..fixed..and let go back into the neighborhood because they are too wild.  Amanda, unfortunately, died several months ago after a dog attack.  She is buried deep in our back yard.  Sebastian hangs around the front porch and plays with the inside cats through the storm door.  It is too funny.  He wants to be in here....just not with us people.

Finster

This kitten just ran up our walkway and jumped into Glenn's arms.  It was the cutest thing.  Glenn fell in love that moment.  I, however, was not convinced.  He was too well taken care of to be a stray.  I wouldn't let him bring him in because I knew he would never leave.  We already had 10 cats and I was yelling NO MORE!!!   So Glenn, smartly, would turn on the porch light and walk back and forth in front of the storm door holding Finster.  After two days of this I let him being him in and guess what...He never left.
I love this cat.  He is cool.  He loves to play with the other cats and with us.  He likes to be sort of rough and he doesn't use his claws unless he has to make a point.  He sleeps on a pillow at the head of the bed between Glenn and I.  He also loves to snuggle with you in bed a well.  None of the other cats like that.  We love it!!

Yakko, Wakko, & Dot

Yes, Glenn named three sibling kittens after the Animaniacs.  Each one actually lives up to there names...it's hilarious.  In the picture above, is Yakko and Dot.  Yakko is the Brown/Hazel cat while his sister has the Dot on her nose.  He is a talker.  Dot always wants the love but then streaks off after a few rubs.  Wakko, in the picture below YakkoVivion Road.

Rhett

Rhett truly had a kitty angel watching over him.  He was abandoned at the property on Vivion where Sam and Jeff lived.  He was howling and scratching at the door to the building where his people used to live.  Sam caught him.  He is a lover.  He is very passive.  He has an old man's meow too!  So Cute!  Loves to have his spine scratched pretty hard.  He pushed back when you so it.  Jeff called him Red and I changed it to Rhett, because he is a lover.  He likes everyone and has no qualms about coming up to anyone at the house.

Peggy

Peggy came to us as an abandoned kitty as well.  She was way too little to be on her own, but she was.  Probably some ass just dumped her somewhere.  She looks like a Chocolate Tortoise shell cat.  I don't care she is lovely.  Saw her one night on our porch as I was taking some beef scraps out to the outdoor cats (fat and meaty bones - they need all the help they can get).  I put a T-bone done that still had a fare amount of meat on it.  This little kitten sprang from between 5 adult cats to grab the bone that was almost two times the size of her.  She was snorting and hissing - saying THIS IS MINE!!  I was adorable and yet upsetting.  She really didn't stand a chance without her Mama out there.  We put a trap out the later the same night and we got her.  Again, the stomach did them in.  She only took a couple of days to get adjusted.  The top picture of her was taken that first week.  We had comforters all laid down so she would be cozy and warm..it was winter.  She was all intertwined with the other cats.  She has grown into a very gentle cat.  She plays rough with Finster though.  If they weren't fixed, as every cat we have is, we would have many kitties.

Lady Diana

Diana has been with Glenn (Sam) since he lived out in Overland Park.  She was owned by the lady he lived with.  She was a Canadian weirdo.  Something happened and they all had to move because of her...she just left Diana.  While she isn't my favorite cat, she would not have survived on her own.  The lady gave her no attention, instead she gave her attention to her other cat...the one she took.  So Diana ate and ate and ate her pain away because she got no attention.  She is now skinny and gets lots of attention.  She is also the hairball queen.

Snoot and BigBoy

These two cats came to us from Tim.  He passed away and his parents were too old to care for the cats.  These are old cats.  Snoot, top picture, is a great cat but he has cataracts and can barely see.  BigBoy, can see but he is very needy.  Annoyingly so.  We have to keep them locked in the back room because they don't get along with our cats and they also have the tendency to piss and crap anywhere.  Doesn't matter where they are.  I have a problem with that, as most people would.



That is it!!  I know I thought it would never end too!!

OK...WHAT!?!  This was found on the candy aisle and not that women's aisle that all men steer clear of.  I guess it is to make your cootch taste minty fresh and it is cheaper than Monistat!  HAH!  Obviously this is a foreign product, but they should really take into effect where the product is going to be sold.
Also, speaking of Monistat.  I have a question for all you women.  I was standing in that never-moving line at the Wal-Mart Pharmacy and saw all the different Monistat's.  My freind, Mary Terrie Taylor, told me that the number corelates to the days it will take the product to get rid of ole' yeastie.  Question - Why on EARTH are you going to get 7 instead of 1?  Do you like baking bread?  Love that not-so-fresh feeling?  Mary told me it is cost...The price was right there...not THAT much of a difference.  EEWWWWWW!!