Stolen or Misplaced

I really hate when people lose something from just being careless especially when they lose it more than once, a week. But what bothers me the most, is when that kind of person can’t even take responsibility for their own stupidity, and has to put the blame onto someone else as if “someone has stolen it” What do you do when you are the blamed person? Do you confront them or should you just let it go. Well letting it go, might make people think that you did take it, but confronting them may also lead up to a larger conflict and perhaps more damage than it’s worth, when you know you are innocent!
What makes the situation even worse is when that person finds what they lost a few months later and of course, to their surprise it should have never ever been where they found it, is not going back up to the person they swore took it in the first place!
I had an incident once, where I lost my wallet! I looked everywhere for it and could not find it, I was so mad at myself thinking, had I just stayed home and not gone out the night before, I wouldn’t have lost the darn thing! I went through every minute in my mind of all the places we were for hours. We went to about 6 different bars that night. My first reaction was to go to all those bars and asked if someone had returned it, well the bad thing of that was those bars don’t ever open until 4 or 5 p.m. So for about 8 hours I had to just wait and think! I had $350 dollars in my wallet that night! I had just gotten paid and cashed my check to pay for some bills and thought to go out for a few drinks while I was there already. Well little did I know how many friends I had not seen in so long, so of course, I had stayed out way later than planned and drank more than I’m used to.
Finally 4 p.m. came and I jumped in the car to each place and asked, no luck, no one found anything or no one returned anything! I went back to the one bar that I remembered the most, and no, not because it was the first bar and I was still sober, but because I remembered buying the round of drinks since I was being bought all night. So I knew that’s where we were last! This should be the bar to have it found if I missed my back pocket and it dropped to the floor instead. Unfortunately nothing was ever found.
Weeks had gone by and I had mostly everything renewed that I needed for the future. I swallowed my stupidity and dealt with my loss! I had built my bridge and gotten over it. Then one day I was sitting there and realized I needed to cut my toe nails, so there I was trying to find my nail clipper case and had finally found it. I opened up my case and there to my surprise was my wallet! I immediately opened it and there was all my money! I was ecstatic! I couldn’t ever understand why I would have put it there, but then later I remembered that night I did come home and wanted to cut my nails, but then realized I have had a few drinks and I didn’t want to Slip and cut my skin so I must have just put everything all away together, which shouldn’t have been together. Well I did return to the bars and let them know that I have found it and where. We all had a good laugh about my stupidity of misplacing my wallet.

Sail Away!!

Well Friday was a phenomenal day! And I went sailing for the first time ever, wow, was that ever fun! It was somewhat windy out, but we also had a motor, so if it got too windy we could have always used that. We never did use the motor unless it was to get away from the slip or back into it. There was a time when the wind did kick in and the boat was literally standing on its side. I had my feet on the other bench, and was standing almost in an upright position. All I kept thinking was, if I would have been sleeping in the cabin below and would have woken up to seeing the window completely under water, I would have freaked! I did most of the navigating since my friend, who owns the boat, had to put the sails up or down. It navigates pretty much like a regular fishing boat except it didn’t have a steering wheel, nor did it has a shifter. It was more like a long stick handle sticking out from the back of the boat into the seating area and you navigate it to the left or the right depending on which way the wind was blowing. We had Lake Pepin all to ourselves! It was the perfect day to pick, because it was Friday, most people were working! Not to mention that many people still don’t even have their boats ready to use. What a shame! I don’t get that, they all whine that they can’t wait for summer to get here but then they don’t even have their boats out to start preparing it for the river. The mass on this sail boat is probably 15 feet high, I didn’t really have the strength to help him get that up and hold the rope tightly that needs to be held, to make it easier later. We offered to pay some man if he could help us get that up, but he refused the money and helped us anyways. I found out that he was from Turkey. He was hot! Giorn (the Turkish guy, I did get his name) was also very well spoken in the American language; I was really surprised how well. I wonder how long he has lived here. I lived in Germany most of my life, and have some friends who are Turkish and some of them, no matter how long they lived in Germany, still never mastered the foreign language without their Turkish accent. Not to mention, some never learned hardly any German at all! Well after we went sailing and got the boat back into the slip we had a fish dinner, and a burger which was very good! Then we went home and listened to some music while showering and getting dressed to relax. We made it off the river just in time. When we got home, it started lightening, thundering and raining. I had to get back that night so while I drove it was thundering and lightening the whole way home, that wasn’t too much fun, especially not after the gorgeous day it had been all day long. So then the weekend came along and of course, I wasn’t too sad about the weather still being miserable because I needed to let my sunburned face relax. I know one thing; I can’t wait to do that again! So in my world I always say. Let there be sun! To boat ride, ride motorcycles, to ride bikes, to walk, to jog, to play, to smell the fresh air, to see the beautiful colors, to be in the wind and get fresh air, to get some rays and vitamin D from the sun that we have lacked since October and much, much more! It’s too have fun! So the next time it is nice out, don’t just sit and look out the window and say, “What should I do”. Just go and do it! You won’t regret it!

Bad Guys or Just plain, DUMB?

So a few days ago I was reading the paper and I’m reading all the exciting news that seems to go in the exciting little world of La Crosse. I’m scrolling and scrolling and run into these sections called courts. Well in these courts section I’m reading more than I expected to read about these guys who strangle their girl friends?! Wow, I thought to myself what is really going? Why are people so psychotic now days? Is it the water or what?
Then I got to thinking wow, it’s all these young guys, then I read on and noticed no, it’s not just the young guys even though, most of them were the younger guys. Anyways I kept on reading and there were all kinds of people in trouble for this type of behavior. I don’t get it, when I was growing a man didn’t hit a woman let alone strangle her!
This one guy is only 23 years old and is charged with strangling his girlfriend. But not only strangling but also biting her. Now wouldn’t you think that if you are strangling this gal, that you really don’t have to bite her either? So this incident happened on April 2.
Then I tended to read on and see the next guy. A 29 year old, charged on April 5th for strangulation and suffocation to his girlfriend! This makes me wonder, how old is she? Why would anyone put up with this? So the one thing I noticed is that they all like to flee from the cops. Not to mention that two out of three were also repeat offenders! So I keep on reading even though my mind was really wondering all sorts of questions. Questions like why do women put up with this? Why do they do this? Was it something they grew up seeing their Mom putting up with it, or did they see their Dad doing this behavior? So I’m confused by this point and distraught in wonder. So I keep reading on thinking the news has to become better than this, nope I read on and I read of another incident from La Crosse, a 41 year old is charged with strangulation and false imprisonment and suffocation? Okay so what the heck do these charges mean, okay I got the part that he apparently strangled his girlfriend or tried to I should say. But the heck are charges for suffocation? Did he strangle her or just suffocate her? Don’t the two words mean the same? Well I seemed to have thought so. But I guess I was wrong. What happened to the boys who were once so innocent at one time? The guys who took you out to dinner and promise not to lie. There were many more. So does Wisconsin have the low self esteem? Or is it these guys are alcoholics or doing drugs that make them react this way? That’s too bad because I do know of a lot of guys who are nice. And these guys give the bad rap for the nice ones.

Frustrated about thieves!

A few weeks ago my storage unit was broken into and to my surprise, at first I didn’t even notice what was taken. I did notice that my DVD and VCR was missing, then later noticed my Nintendo was missing as well. Suddenly I then realized that even my Microwave was taken! God, that makes me so mad! Why do we have to have thieves! They were sneaky enough to take boxes from another area to put in the missing spot where my microwave had been. That is why I didn’t notice that being gone, at first. So now I wonder what else they went through that I am not even am aware of yet. Well apparently they caught the thieves, so why aren’t I being notified by someone to come and identify my items yet. What does the police department need my things for other than proof for what those “punks” have stolen! I haven’t even seen my things yet! Apparently the police think that these thieves are in a ring, and they are trying to get the ones they caught to talk, but they aren’t! So why can’t I at least see my things to identify them, you would think. Maybe we should do like many of the Islamic people do. They cut thieves hands off! I wish we could cut those thieves hands off, and then the whole society would be aware to watch your things around them. Also, be aware that they are thieves and that they wouldn’t be wanted as friends, or perhaps even customers in your store. Why do thieves have to think that it is perfectly okay to cut someone else’s lock off their property and take whatever they choose to take? Why can’t they think how they would like it done to them, or even perhaps think how much money the person put into buying all of their things? How would they like it if they were to spend say $500 dollars on a brand new DVD and someone else just came up to their house, broke a window to come and clean out the entire belongings! I’m sure they wouldn’t like it one bit either. Now they would have to work another two weeks to earn for the DVD, not to mention all the other items that may need to be replaced. Oh yeah, also they would have to even come up with more extra money to get their window fixed! Not to mention that now their window isn’t secured and they have to sleep worrying all night long if another thief is going to come by and see the broken window and think, “Oh cool, an entrance, let’s see what we can steal or do inside the apartment.” I really wish everything that comes around, goes around, and would occur instantly to those thieves. Not just the punishment they will or will not receive for the crime they have committed, but also have all their things taken and pawned off by other thieves. Not only that but I wish that I could go to their trial just so I would know what they would be getting for their punishment. These thieves that have stolen my items are only in their early 20s, makes me wonder how many years they have been doing this already. Not only that but I’m sure when and if they were perhaps caught before, what punishment did they then receive, probably nothing but a slap on their hand and why? Because of the stupid law we have, that parents are allowed to discipline their kids with a good old fashioned butt-whooping. Also, why not have a prison for children! I sure as heck knew right from wrong when I was five! Maybe with a teen prison, they then can think about spending their whole life in prison as an adult or not!!

HMMMM……What to blog about?
Well let’s see the other night I was watching TV and the show was called the “MOST OUTRAGEOUS CLIPS” or something to that matter, anyways it was showing 20 year olds who were having a party and they were literally seeing who would crack the beer bottle on their head? So one guy would stand in line and put his head out for the other guy to try to bust the beer bottle over his head. CRACK! Nothing happened, one more try… CRACK; again nothing happened except that they would say OUCH that hurts! The one guy was making them swear only to hit the back of his head and not his face. Then the next guy would put his head out—Crack, nothing happened, crack, crack, and crack finally the guy gives up. Well after about five guys trying this; finally the beer bottle broke on the sixth guy’s head! Then the blood starting oozing but of course, he was the winner! I was cringing the entire time trying to watch this. I could not believe this was their idea of fun!!
Then there was another clip where these guys wanted to see how high they could get a bon fire, except it wasn’t in a fire pit or in someone’s back yard, it was out in the middle of a parking lot! Well they would wonder off to dumpster and find whatever they possibly could, one guy found an old chair. The flames now were nine feet high, and then they were running out of ammo so to my surprise they literally rolled a person’s car right on top of the flames. Well certainly that got the flames up high enough to where people actually thought a building was on fire, and had called the fire department and when they came they then put the car out!
What are these people thinking? I remember when I was young like that I thought us sitting around playing drinking games was bad enough. Or when we would be out and being loud. I think we had much more fun playing dice games in a bar or as I mentioned drinking shot games. But to crack a beer bottle over my head or to see how high we can get a fire going?!!
Then there were other scenes. One where these kids came in to rob a bar, one of the kids was only 12 years old!! I think kids now days know that they can get away with everything they want to do now days. Parents aren’t allowed to spank them because they will go to prison, and other adults aren’t allowed to knock the punk out for bad mouthing or trying to steal his or her stuff, because they will go to prison. This one kid on this other show I was watching was a trouble maker kid and the talk show hosts asked him why he was the way he was, and his comment literally was, because I know they won’t send me to prison and that I can get away with it! How sad it that!! What happened to all the respect one was taught 30 or more years ago? It didn’t matter if it was your own parent or just another adult scolding you for whatever you were caught doing, you stopped it immediately, and apologized, or ran off in a hurry. Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to the older days when men were gentlemen and wore suits and women were ladies who wore the fancy clothing with hats, and gloves and all the other accessories? I’m not too keen on the dress code as much, but the respect thing would be nice to see come back again!!

Donna's way of explaining the game "Euchre"

Euchre is a five card game, and it's like Spades you have to follow suit every hand, otherwise it's a "renege". It's played with four people and two people are partners on one team and the other two are on the other team. You can choose by flipping for Jacks, the first Jack will start the deal and the next person to get the Jack will be the dealer’s partner. The dealer should deal not by single cards like in poker; it has to be two, three, two then three to you. Then the next three, two, three then two to yourself. Or you could do two all the way around and then three, that's the way I do it because it's easier to remember who needs what. There are 24 cards in the deck, 9 and up are only used. When you are done dealing around the table you then should have 4 cards left and the card on the top is flipped face up. The person on the left has the first choice of choosing that to be trump according to his hand or he can pass. Now let's say you turned up the 10 of diamonds. Unlike spades Euchre has TOP TRUMP=in the order of this: Jack of diamonds is called the right Bauer, then second highest would be the Jack of hearts (the left Bauer), then follows the Ace, King, Queen, then of course the ten and nine of diamonds. So the person to the left of you has both Bauer and the Ace of diamonds and the nine and perhaps an Ace off suit, well he/she could order you up and chance going alone; you would then have to pick up the ten of diamonds and discard one of your other lowest card. So then the person who would lead (the person on the left of you) the Jack of diamonds your partner would have to follow suit with his diamond, HIS PARTNER WOULD STAY OUT (remember he said alone) you would then have to follow suit also. Then the opponent would lead out the Jack of hearts which is still persisting take out the rest of trump. There is 7 trump total! Well that hand would take all tricks the opponents would then get a score of four points. If he/she were to try it alone but didn't make all five tricks he then would get just one point. Now let's say the person to the left of you wouldn't have that hand, then they would pass, now let's say your partner had the Bauer and some aces, he/she could order you up and chance to play it alone or let you help him/her to get all the tricks. When you get all the tricks with the both team members play then you score two points. If the opponents keep you all from getting all the tricks then you score only one point. Now let's say nobody wants diamonds trump and everyone passes then it's up to you well you look into your hand and decide do you have both Bauer and then if you were to pick up the ten then you would have three of the seven trump, you would want to do that, but say that would be the only diamond you would have, then you would want to pass as well, you would then have to turn the card over, and again it goes around to whoever may want to make trump, Now remember is someone makes it clubs then it would follow top trump Jack of clubs, then the left Jack of Spades, and so on again. Now say the opponents make it clubs, if they don't get the three of five tricks then it is called a Euchre, then you and your partner would get two points. Now if they said club and made the three tricks then they would just get one point. Hopefully you understand this all and try to play it sometime with four people.

OBJECT: To make three of five tricks (no matter who makes what trump)
SCORE: one pt
If they don't get the three tricks then they are euchred.
SCORE: two pts.
If you try it alone, and DON'T get all the five tricks.
SCORE: one pt.
If you go alone and get all the tricks.
SCORE: four pts

ABOUT RENEGING: If you are caught Reneging then the opponents gets two pts
Remember who ever tries it alone they then only play the opponents! Their partner sits out and can rake in the tricks you make. The first person to play to ten wins! You can play more if you want. In tournaments we play ten sets of ten hands, so if you score 80 or more that pretty awesome. But you will see that it's hard to get so many points. Every hand play different there is no set way to play. You could have four trumps and sometimes get euchred, and then the next hand you could only have two trump (the right and another and hopefully an ace) and make your point. Sometimes you get lucky and your partner may have the other trump and you and your partner get all the tricks then you get two points. You have to take chances. Euchre is pronounced ‘yew’ker’. In case you wonder what it's enunciation is.

STRATEGY: Is take chances and have fun!

Donna's Gerneral Commendations

Have you heard that Obama signed the stimulus package at the same desk that Clinton had his package stimulated? Well I did, and I thought that was funnier than heck! For those that don’t think that was funny, more than likely don’t have a sense of humor, or are just too uptight trying to be someone else by acting like they are prim and proper. Oh well, my heart goes out to you if you seriously cannot take a joke. Here’s goes to change the subject. The other day I was reading this magazine about this lady who was about to give birth to twins, supposedly a boy and a girl were to be delivered. Unfortunately, as she was giving the birth, and she slipped into a coma. Five weeks later she awoke and the Doctor came and said “Hi, you’re finally awake.” She stared at him startled and said, “What do you mean, I’m finally awake?” The doctor then replies, “Well you slipped into a coma when you were delivering your healthy baby boy and girl twin, five weeks ago, Mrs. Jones.” She echoed, “What do you mean? Are you telling me that my babies are five weeks old and have no names yet?” He said, well yes they are five weeks old but they do have names.” She says, “Who named them?” He said, “Well your brother Tom did.” Mrs. Jones, yelps out a screech, and says, “What my brother Tom named my babies?” “Are you serious?” “My brother Tom is an idiot!” The doctor and the nurses just glared and stared in puzzlement. Then Mrs. Jones begins to say, “Well what did he name my daughter, and the doctor says, “Denise”, she thinks for a moment or two, and comes back with the statement, “Wow, that is not so bad, in fact, I think I like that name, Denise.” “What did he named the boy, says Mrs. Jones. The doctor replies, “Denephew”. So this guy walks into a bar and has a couple of Budweiser’s, after awhile he gets a little bored, so he say to the bartender, “Hey I’ll bet you $100 I can chew on my left eye.” The bartender looks at him and says, “You’re on!” Analyzing a little to himself and precedes to wait for the guy’s justification. Finally the guy takes his left eye out and puts it in his mouth and uses his teeth to chew on it and then puts it back into his eye socket. The bartender dumbfounded just glares at the guy in awe. He then pays the customer his $100 and continues on with serving other clients. An hour goes by and the customer then says “Hey bartender, I’ll tell you what, I’ll give you a chance to win back your $100.” The bartender then says, “Yeah how are you going to do that? The customer says, “Well double or nothing I can chew on my right eye.” The bartender thinks to himself, there is no way this guy came in here with no dog, and no glasses and can be able to see where he is going with TWO glass eyes. So he says, “You’re on”. The guy then takes out his teeth and put it on his eye and starting chewing as if he was chewing. Well the bartender was not too happy about losing $200 now. The customer drinks up his beer and leaves the bar. A few hours later the same customer comes back in and says “Hey, bartender, would you like a chance to win back your money some extra?” He says “Yes”, how? The guy says well you stand at one of the bar and I’ll stand down here, and all you have to do is slider the beer glass from your end to mine and I promise you that I won’t spill a drop and pee in the whole glass without spilling a drop! The bartender chuckles, and says, “You’re on! This will be my win! Well everything goes to plan. So he stands at the end of bar and slides the glass down, well the went pee every where all over the place, and the bartender starts laughing with joy, the bartender say “Well here’s your $500 but you see the guys over there, I bet them $1000 that I could pee all over your bar and you would laugh.