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I ordered the three 4 gig cards as advertised and they send me a receipt for 2 gig cards??? Talk about false advertising! When I contacted Customer Services, oddly they couldn’t help me, they said it would take 3 – 4 business days to get back with me. Well the cards will already be shipped by then. This is ridiculous!!!

Here I go watching movies again…

This time it was The Bucket List. Two of my favorite men were in this one, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Here is the quote I came away with thinking about this time.

“The ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance of heaven, the gods asked them two questions. Their answers determined whether they were admitted or not.

Have you found joy in your life?

Has your life brought joy to others?“

For me, the first question is easy. Have I found joy in my life? Yes, I believe I have. I find it most of all every single time I hear my niece and my God children laugh, there is no better sound in the entire world. It may sound corny, but I find joy in an unexpected beautiful sunrise (like this morning). I find joy watching my dog run carefree and happy, and I find joy when I can laugh so hard my gut hurts and tears are streaming down my face. When was the last time you did that? I don’t do it nearly enough, and it is one of the best feelings in the world.

The second question, however…Has my life brought joy to others? I honestly don’t know…I would like to hope so, but it depends on each person’s definition of the word ‘joy’. All I can do is be myself and be the best person I know how to be…

Here is the video from the movie. People either love John Mayer or dislike him, I’m on the love side. As if you can’t tell from the song, it’s reminding you to tell people what you need to while you have the opportunity. You don’t know when the opportunities will no longer be there. We hear this advice a lot, but how many of us actually take it? Here’s an example. My former boss that I love dearly was having a conversation with me Thursday morning where we were laughing and joking. Then returned to her office to find out her father was in cardiac arrest…he didn’t make it. This was completely unexpected. We can’t take life for granted.

The Chief just called me. He was standing in a hanger bay in Columbia South Carolina waiting with over 200 other soldiers ready to head out to Kuwait. He said if they didn’t have to stop and refuel it would be a 17 hour flight. 17 hours, that’s all that stands between freedom and safety and the beginning of war. He still states he’ll be safe, although in my most recent conversations with him he’s been a little less insistent. Maybe he learned some things in his ground training, maybe it’s finally sunk in where he’s going, maybe a combination of both. He told me the other day he would be stationed for the next 10 months at Camp Sykes. We can’t find a lot of information about this base on the internet. In fact the most current information either one of us could find was from 2005 and stated:

“Camp Sykes is located in Tall Afar about 40 miles from the Syrian border. The camp is considered to be one of the most dangerous and inaccessible in all of Iraq. The secular nature of Tall Afar’s population has only increased the instability of the area.”

Please, this place has got to of changed in the past three years. It has to of. We’ve made some progress haven’t we? If anyone knows anything about this base, please tell me. There are many people who read this blog who don’t comment, that’s wonderful! I stalk many a blog myself, if one of my readers out there has any information you can share, please email me: kaylyn50 at hotmail dot com. I would really appreciate it.

This is the first time since the Chief told me he was being sent to Iraq that he was anything less than upbeat when we hung up. This was the first time I hung up the phone shaking and in tears.

Am I overreacting? Maybe, but when we can’t trust the media to give us accurate information and we know we can’t, how am I supposed to feel?

I tell people all the time that no one can control your mood except you. Why can’t I take my own advice?? Why????

I woke up this morning on the right side of the bed. Okay, I was a little tired. I slept in a little. Usually when I do this, I’m not quite as alert as I usually am. That said, I don’t think I was grumpy or short tempered or even irritable. So why is it that one statement made by one person could ruin my entire day? Why did I allow her that kind of power? Why as humans do we allow people that kind of power? I wish I knew…

A friend just sent this to me.  I love it!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwv5YTLcJjw

I’ve been really lucky the last few years not to of become victim of any illnesses.  Until now that is…I’m going down hill fast!  I put up a valiant fight, but I just couldn’t hold it off any longer.  I’m not sure the last time I took a breath from my nose, I don’t remember what my actual voice sounds like or when my eyes were able to open fully.

I think I need my Mom! 

I received this email this morning.  Wow!  I must of won the lottery or something!!!  I can’t believe it!!!  Yeah, whatever!  I feel so sorry for the people who fall for these things!

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FROM MR XXXX XXX.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT.
ECOWAS BANK, LOME- TOGO.

Dear Friend,

                                   STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. I am the FOREIGN REMITTANCE MANAGER of ECOWAS Bank Lome Togo West Africa, I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of (10.5 million US dollars). Ten Million Five Thousand United States Dollars immediately to your account. The money has been dormant (in-active) for long in our Bank here without any body coming for it.

I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer Mr Gabani Badran from Albanian the owner of the account who died a long with his supposed next of kin in plane crash since 31st OCTOBER 1999. I don’t want the money to go into our Bank treasury bank account as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so that my Bank will release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased cutomer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you full details on how the
business will be executed and also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute this business.

This is my phone number +228-096-29-43 MY PRIVATE Email Address we you can contact me (XXX@hotmail.com)

Thanks and waiting for your urgent response,

Best Regards

Mr. XXXX XXX.

As Rob said in his blog. It doesn’t matter what your political views are, this is really good. I like what it has to say.