Testing Textamerica

So..lets see if this works. I'm wading through TextAmerica to see if that will work for me.

All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.

If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by,
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.

Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore.
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind.

All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew off,
Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.

Soccer Mom

Tonight, we bought a brand-new mini_van
That's right, gentle readers...my Volvo is busted. My transformation to Soccer Mom is now complete (I just never thought of my Volvo as a family car, it was something I bought cuz I wanted to portray an "image" of say...Free-wheeling, Ben and Jerry's eating, Volvo driving liberal hippie from Vermont, not a mom of 5 from New Jersey)

See you in 6 years when I won't need a mini-van anymore. THEN I will go back to my most favorite of all vehicles "The Bug".

Led Zeppelin II

I've been obsessively listening to (along with other compilations) Led_Zeppelin_II.
Okay, so maybe I'm a throw-back....but Led Zeppelin has to be the best rock band ever.
Maybe this stirs up old memories of the 1970's. The album that was released in my day was Physical_Graffiti
which contains my most favorite of all Led Zeppelin songs, Houses of the Holy not to be confused with the album of the same name.

Take a Giant Step

Take a Giant Step

When you woke up and morning smiled
It’s time you felt like you did then.
There’s just no percentage in remembering the past
It’s time you learned to live again at last.

Come with me, leave yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind.

You stare at me in disbelief
You say for you there’s no relieve
But I swear I’ll prove you wrong.
Don’t stay in your lonely room
Just staring back in silent gloom.
That’s not where you belong
Come with me I’ll take you where the taste of life is green
And everyday holds wonders to be seen.

Come with me, leave yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind.

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This is actually a song by the MONKEES!
Its kinda how I feel about several aspects of my life right now...
I've taken back some control of my health care. Drugs are NOT the answer to
some of my physical problems. Exercise and diet ARE. I've lost almost 20lbs now and most of my pain is subsiding. I'm pissed that my doctor had me taking a boatload of painkillers. I kicked that.
Work is turning a corner, we had BIG changes but I feel really positive about the outcome...its gonna be alright. Some of you know where I work, we're under kinda a gag order not to use the name of the business in our blogs...so the rest of you may have to google me to find out!

Have a Pollyanna Day,
Angela

Pollyanna

Wow, its been a few days. I keep thinking of stuff to post and then I forget. oh well.
I've been really really busy with work. Big changes going on there, lots of extra hours, but thats okay. I love where I work and what we do so its all good.

I want to become a member of the Pollyanna Glad Club. Pollyanna gets a bad rap nowadays. In fact she's been painted as an extremist and an imbecile. That is if you buy into the suspicious, opportunism that is in style nowadays.

Pollyanna, wasn't stupid. She wasn't always delighted. She did have an important message about the value of trust and the insignificant price of failure. It's all in your attitude.

This I've taken from one of my online friends whose started the Pollyanna Glad Club.

Whack for my daddy-o

Musha ring dum a do dum a da.
Whack for my daddy-o,
Whack for my daddy-o.
There's whiskey in the jar-o.

Its Sunday night. I've just finished listening on my beloved am radio
The_Adrian_Flannery_Show on WNSR Irish Radio Network from Jersey City, NJ.

I've started a new volunteering thing. Donating homecooked meals to shut-in AIDS victims in the Asbury Park, NJ area. The_Center provides microwaveable containers for the meals, all I need to do is fill them and freeze them. This works out well. We bought a new freezer chest last week and my often over abundance at mealtime (you see, I love to cook and normally prepare too too much for my family) coincides nicely when I heard about this project at The Center.

I've been attending Mass regularly since Easter. I feel somehow compelled to return to the faith of my childhood. I've been praying to be lead to a religious community. I don't know if I will ever be completely whole with the RC church, but for now I'm going with it. There is a difference, somehow. Can you imagine this, I found out about The Center as a direct result from my weekly attendance at St_Veronica_Roman_Catholic_Church

I'm feeling more connected to "outside". I spent the weekend planting and landscaping with the family. It was a beautiful weekend for it! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves.