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LISTEN TO THE "PURDY" PAINT DOCTOR AT:

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UPDATE: 8-18-08 "KEL HAS BEEN LOCATED. There is still a reward for info leading to her arrest!

I JUST SAW HER ON HER FRONT PORCH...A YEAR LATER.

....AND SHE SAW ME AND MY DOG TOO.


She lives at 1308 NEVADA STREET IN EAST TOLEDO,

and she STILL owes me a new back door which is still all busted up from her kicking it in, and some new screens.

Is she a DRUG-ADDICT, an idiot, or just plain stupid, or does she just want to lose her kids (from what the neighbors have told me)..again ?
The lady who watched her daughter told me that she had given this "Kel" all her money to "get something" (some mothers are real idiots) and allowed her 13 year old daughter (who was smoking and cussing like a sailor at the corner at 6 years old) to go out to a party and get wasted till dawn with this 20 something nasty woman, whose last name she did not even know, then actually complained to me that "Kel" left her kid there and never came back for her and then...ACTUALLY ASKED ME ID I KNEW WHERE SHE WAS!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE SOME PEOPLE???
It's people EXACTLY LIKE THIS THAT GIVE EAST TOLEDO A BAD NAME.


PLUS THIS LADY WAS UPSET BECAUSE THIS "KEL" USED UP ALL HER MONEY!! awww.
What a bummer, huh? You didn't get your drugs "Mom", your daughter and her friend you barely knew, did them all up. Gosh DARNIT!! What a world; what a world!

Yes folks. I am still bitter. i actually forgot to pray to ask God to help me forgive Kel for this. Seeing her is actually a reminder. So for that I am thankful.

This was one time then the TOLEDO POLICE let me down though, and I cannot forget that. Well, this was actually 2nd time...The male officer that responded after an hour and a half and expected me to do the detective work myself.

WELL - I DID. NOW LET'S SEE IF ANYONE ELSE CAN COME THROUGH FOR ME. FOR PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WHO ARE TIRED OF GETTING RIPPED OFF AND THE LAW DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT.
BUT LIKE I SAID, THERE HAS BEEN, AND STILL IS, A REWARD ALL THIS TIME FOR HER LAST NAME AND INFORMATION WHICH WILL LEAD TO HER ARREST (that part is very important). AND THIS STILL STANDS, as of AUGUST 18th, 2008.
PLEASE EMAIL ME VIA THIS BLOG.

If I had done what she did, which I never would, I would, at the very least, apologise, when she was drunk and drugged out of her mind and managed to break halfway into my back door, screaming every name in the book at me and telling me she had to pee..As explained once again, below, she must of thought it was her house...who knows. She hasn't been around this part of the neighborhood since that incident.

But the gig is almost up MISS "KEL".
Charges are soon to be pressed.



HERE IS THE INFORMATION REPEATED FROM A YEAR OR SO AGO, WHEN THE INCIDENT FORST OCCURED:


DO YOU KNOW "KEL"?
"This morning at 6 a.m., on Saturday, September 29th, 2007, a wasted-out-of-her-mind, dyed-diswater-blond, trash-mouthed 29 year old ** named KEL ** (petite: about a size 3**) with thick lips and a weather-worn, partied-out face, broke into my back door, after coming out of my screen room screaming loudly, to "let her in because she had to "piss".
She was yelling and calling me every name in the book at the top of her lungs and not one neighbor came out to help me. The men (spoiled 20-something father-babied-boys) neighbors on my right side were UP with the lights on and they didn't even come over after it was and said and done to see if we were alright.


**About 1:30 p.m. this afternoon, the white trash parent who lives down at the end of the street, a few houses from the Sports Center Bowling Alley, came down about 1:45 p.m. to see if I knew where she went because the tramp left her little (around) 3 year old at their house and had not been in touch or come back to get her, as well as her purse (full of make-up only from what we could see using a stick to open the top**) and her JEANS (!!) were still hanging from the outside of my fence along the sidewalk on Greenwood Street(that she took off out on my sidewalk evidently before she came in my house with just her white nasty cotton undies and t-shirt on),

...but JUST moments before they came to ask me this, the jeans disappeared.

I looked out the front door, and there that trampy-looking-girl was, talking to the 15 year old (named Jordan) that she had gone out partying with the night before, the mother, whom had just been at my door,, and sister, handing over her daughter to her in a stroller. As soon as she saw me, she took off down the street with the stroller and the daughter in tow. I followed her for 6 blocks, up White Street, then Nevada, then Plymouth, then Willard, taking her picture with the digital the entire way. I was determined to find out where she lived or hung out at because it was evident that the police were going to do absolutely nothing about her break-in. I finally got up to the area of Idaho and Willard, and she had hid somewhere there..and learned from the mother of the 13 year old that that is where her girlfriend lives and where she hangs out.

When the police FINALLY came back a 2nd time (about an HOUR after 3 of us called about her...oh it was longer than that...THEY GOT HERE AT 5:00 PM!!) they said they would drive over to that area and see if they saw her. WELL DUH! Who with any brains (especially a white-trash girl who had already lost 3 of her kids, and must be familiar with the law) whatsoever would stay in a place with the one kid they have left (that isn't in Child Protective Services out of the 4 total she has**) knowing that so many of us had called the police and that I knew where she had gone and had a picture of what she looked like.

She threatened to kick my ass, and I have no intention of starting anything with her. I have better more productive ways of dealing with this. It may take some time, but I believe in fate and God's laws.

I refuse to allow this to just drop. She terrorized my child, broke all the screens on the street side of my house and broke the front and back doors as well as the screen room door. They're trashed. I don't have the money to fix them! And the officer this morning said, "Well, if you find out who she is through Block Watch or something, then you can press charges", and he took a report of some of the damage..I found more damage after he left) just because some waste-case chose my house randomly to be the one where the white-trash tramp decided to want to go to the bathroom at.
HOW IN THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT HER LAST NAME AND ADDRESS!!?? THAT'S THEIR JOB!!
THIS IS BULL SHIT!

I never claimed to be a vigilante. But when no one will tell you her last name, (even the MOM who claimed to have given that girl all her money and lost it out of her pants pocket or whatever (this was told to me later - like I care - (WHY WOULD SHE GIVE A TRASHY GIRL WHOSE LAST NAME SHE DID NOT KNOW, ALL OF HER MONEY??? WHAT DO YOU THINK??? I CAN PRETTY MUCH TELL YOU WHY IF YOU DON'T FIGURE IT OUT) but everyone in the neighborhood knows her...I refuse to be a victim again.

And with the dispatcher for the police dawdling around asking stupid questions, my phone number TWICE, my spelling of my FIRST AND LAST NAME JUST WASTING TIME!! WHILE THAT GIRL WAS SCREAMING SO LOUD THAT THE DISPATCHER COULD BARELY HEAR ME - I KEEP SAYING SEND THEM NOW _ I'LL GIVE YOU THE REST _ JUST PLEASE DISPATCH THEM NOW and she wouldn't until she was all done taking information..when my child is screaming and crying - I will never wait on them or depend on them again. I'm done.

One of us could have been lying in the road by the time the officers got here the second time (AN ENTIRE HOUR!! AFTER I TOLD THE DISPATCHER I HAD BEEN THREATENED! THEY DROVE RIGHT BY ME AND WAVED AND WENT TO ANOTHER CALL!) I can't wait for them anymore.


We are virtually ON OUR OWN PEOPLE!! and everyone needs to make sure they have a weapon to protect their homes and their children in case someone comes into YOUR HOME and then comes back and threatens you like what happened to me.


I have protection - do you? All it would have taken was one more footstep into my door...(of course I could have dragged her in, but I was trying to give the drug-addicted-whore the benefit of the doubt..sorry, Lord)...At the time, I actually felt sorry for her. Not any more.

PLEASE NEIGHBORS AND CITIZENS!!
STAY INVOLVED WITH YOUR LOCAL BLOCKWATCH!!
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DEPEND ON EACH OTHER FOR HELP
..Like the wonderful neighbor, DEB - I will never forget your kindness..) that came by in her car to help me find that girl when I was on foot.

We can't depend on our law enforcement, especially with the budget cuts as they continue to be, and the fact that we have ONE UNIT from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. some days, as I was told by a local officer. If they need another one, it has to come from Downtown. LIKE THEY CAN SPARE A UNIT FROM CENTRAL CITY!

IF SOMEONE COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE YOU HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO PROTECT YOURSELF. DON'T WAIT AROUND FOR THE POLICE TO DO IT. They might not ever show up at all.

I found out also that the girl went into another man's house before mine and he pushed her out too, but not without a fight**

I used to love East Toledo. I SUPPOSE I STILL DO. I HAVE EAST SIDE PRIDE - THERE's NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT...BUT I'VE FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL to make it nice. Today is just one of my bad days. I could tell you so much more. But I'd rather go to bed and start all over again tomorrow. Today really sucked.

Keep up that East Side Pride!!
That old fashioned TOLEDO PRIDE!!!
Toledo "LAW ENFORCEMENT" can take a big suck of my ass today. I'm tired of beating a dead horse.

Later,
TTR

If you give last name AND info leading to her arrest, there will be a reward:
GO YOU KNOW THIS GIRL NAMED "KEL"?

East Toledo is only a "stones-throw' fom OREGON,OHIO

I am so sorry I have neglected oregon for so long!! I was raised in Oregon, Ohio and Oregon is actually THE PLACE where most East Toledoans wish they lived if they could afford it (if we had to live in this area anyway..)

So here is the run-down on th history of OREGON, OHIO as well as a few links to give you more information:

Oregon - City History

Oregon was once part of the Great Black Swamp. The swamp area was rich with oak, hickory, ash, walnut, elm and maple trees. This led to the establishment of numerous sawmills and settlements.


The harvested forests created rich farmland, but the area remained swampy and there was a need for storm drainage. Major ditches, usually along roadways that followed the path of old Indian trails, were constructed. These ditches continue to provide storm drainage today carrying storm water into Maumee Bay.

"The town was name Oregon by Pierre M. Irving, a nephew of Washington Irving, author of the popular book Astoria. This book attracted considerable interest in John Jacob Astor's trading lands which were located in what is now the city of Oregon. The story, however, is an account of Astor's fur trading in the territory of Oregon; but since the nephew was representing Astor's interest in fur trading east of the Maumee River, he succeeded in having the town named Oregon. In 1838, Mr. Irving accompanied by his wife, went to New York expecting to remain there for the summer; but for some reason he never returned." Quoted in the "History of Oregon and Jerusalem" book, authored by Josephine Fassett.

The first government was Oregon Township, formed in 1838. The land was surveyed and there were public sales for settlements. The area that was the township, is now the City of Oregon, which is bounded on the west by the City of Toledo, the North by Maumee Bay/Lake Erie, on the east by Jerusalem Township (Lucas County) and on the South by the City of Northwood (Wood County). In 1856 the township took ownership of two cemeteries which remain owned by the City today.

The 1800's and 1900's saw the development of an extensive rail system. The Port of Toledo began operations on the south bank of the Maumee River in the early 1800's and developed port operations on the Maumee Bay in Oregon in 1955. These operations continue in the Northwest area of the City.







Because of the water, rail, and surface transportation access that was available in the City, two major refineries, British Petroleum (BP) and Sun Marketing located in Oregon around the turn of the century. These two refineries have historically been two of the City's largest employers..



The northwestern end of the City grew as an industrial center with a coal powered electrical generating facility and several chemical plants. Pipelines were laid to carry petroleum products to and from the port facilities and other regions. Buckeye Pipeline has the largest pipeline distribution system in Oregon.

As industrialization continued, commercial and residential growth followed. Generally, urban growth continued eastward from Interstate 280 - one of the nation's first Interstates. Recently, residential growth has also occurred south of Maumee Bay in the waterfront areas and with perimeter development in the more rural areas.

In 1954 Oregon Township trustees sought to zone the area. At about the same time, City of Toledo officials sought to annex the northwest industrial area of Oregon Township. The annexation failed, and in 1957 there was an election for Oregon to become an incorporated City. The vote was 3,660 in favor and 2,925 opposed. A key issue in incorporation was to have Oregon own and operate a water and a wastewater plant.


The City of Oregon adopted their Charter in 1958. The new City adopted a slogan of "City of Opportunity." In the mid 1980's the City added Oregon on the Bay to the City of Opportunity. In 1959 voters approved an "earnings tax" now known as the municipal income tax. The water plant was constructed in 1964 and currently over 90% of the land in Oregon is serviced with waterlines. Plans for an estimated $17.9 million in improvements to the water plant continued in 1998. The









original water plant was paid for by a combination of local and federal funds. The City also has a wastewater treatment plant, constructed in 1977, with local and federal funds, which can process up to eight million gallons per day. In 1997 a major upgrade to the wastewater plant was completed. Approximately one-third of the land in the City is serviced by sanitary sewer lines. The City's water and wastewater operations also service portions of Jerusalem Township, northern Wood County and northwest Ottawa County.

Form of Government
The original Charter adopted in 1958 called for a Mayor/Council form of government. The City was divided into five wards, each represented by a councilman, and there were two at-large members for a total of seven councilmen. The Charter named the Mayor as the Administrator. The Mayor and Council were elected for two-year terms. In 1968 the Charter was amended to elect all councilmen at large. In 1988 the Charter was amended to change the term of the Mayor to four years. In 1993 there were two Charter changes: one was to create the position of City Administrator who would report to the Mayor; and the other was to abolish the position of Clerk Auditor and to create the positions of Finance Director and Clerk of Council. Other technical charter changes, such as reading the title of an ordinance instead of the entire ordinance, have been periodically approved by the voters.

Location
The City of Oregon is located in northwestern Ohio in the Toledo Metropolitan area. Oregon is Lucas County's largest suburb with 28.5 square miles and a population of 18,326. The City has approximately five miles of shoreline along Maumee Bay/Lake Erie. The City's elevation is approximately 606 feet above sea level. Local temperatures average 73 degrees in the summer and 25 degrees in the winter. The City has approximately 120 miles of roads with I-280 (which links the east - west Ohio Turnpike, I-80/90 with north-south I-75), State Route 2 (Lake Erie access road) and State Route 51 (Wood County and Ottawa County access road). The port facilities service foreign and domestic cargo for shipment in the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes.

The City of Oregon provides a variety of recreational opportunities for residents, workers, and visitors to the area. The City is home to Pearson Metropark, Maumee Bay State Park, South Shore Park and the Coontz Recreational Complex. Maumee Bay State Park has over 1,800 acres. The northern border is one mile of shoreline on Lake Erie. Maumee Bay has an eighteen hole Arthur Hill golf course, lodge and conference center, cabins, campgrounds, inland lake, nature trail, tennis courts, sledding hill and amphitheater. Wave runners, parasails, paddleboats, bikes and canoes are available for rent at the park. Pearson Metropark has 320 acres for biking, a nature center, fishing, picnicking, and paddle boating. The City of Oregon has two municipal parks, Coontz Park for active recreation with eight lighted ball fields and South Shore Park with a sledding hill, picnic area, and fitness trail.

Oregon schools offer a full range of programs from advanced placement courses to vocational education. The Oregon City School District includes a high school, two middle schools, and four elementary schools, one of which is located in Jerusalem township. Also located in the City is Cardinal Stritch High School, a coeducational parochial school. In addition to the Oregon schools, the region is serviced by the University of Toledo, Medical College of Ohio, Lourdes College, Owens Community College and Bowling Green State University. All of these schools are within approximately one-half hour drive time of the City.

Municipal Services
The City provides a wide variety of services authorized by its Charter and administrative codes. City services include police and fire protection, emergency medical service, municipal court, planning and engineering, zoning, code enforcement, street maintenance, traffic control, parks and recreation, building inspection, cemetery, community development, curbside recycling, solid waste collection and disposal and general administrative services. The City does not operate hospitals, schools or landfills. In 1998 the City continued to receive federal funding for persons, with qualifying income levels, to rehabilitate and/or receive down payments to purchase homes.

The City also operates two enterprise activities: water treatment and distribution, and wastewater collection and treatment. The enterprise funds are used to account for activities operated in a manner similar to a private business. The intent of the City is that the costs of providing the services to the general public on a continuing basis be financed primarily through user charges. The cost of capitalizing the water and wastewater plants is subsidized with a voter-approved designation of approximately twenty percent of income tax revenues for said purpose.

The City's enterprise activities are not subject to rate review or determination by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio or any similar regulatory body. The City Council has the necessary authority to establish and to amend appropriate user rates as required. The rates are monitored on an ongoing basis to insure their adequacy to meet operational and maintenance needs. The rates remain competitive in Northwest Ohio. Responsibility for the frequency and amount of rate change lies solely with the City Council.

FOUND AT: http://www.ci.oregon.oh.us/history/history.htm

THIS PAGE OFFERS LINKS TO THESE PAGES OF INFORMATION ABOUT OREGON, OHIO AS WELL:

Mayor Welcome and Link
City Departments
Schools
City Council (I was searching for the 2007 City Council candidates, and ran across this site...unfortunately, I STILL haven't found the 2007 candidates and their afiliation for my Aunt Sissy!)
Attractions
Directory
Search

MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT OREGON IS THAT IS IS MORE ACCESSIBLE TO LAKE ERIE and offers the beautiful MAUMEE BAY STATE PARK (and campground!).

HOROSCOPE=Real Life ALSO: "LIFE" on NBC

THIS - REALLY, honest to God, happened to me today:

October 17, 2007
Capricorn (12/22-1/19)

"You can expect to start this day with a lot of high energy -- so much so that you might jump out of bed and dance the tango! There are a lot of ideas swimming around in your head right now, and they are giving you a blast of physical strength that will carry you through the entire day. There is no question that you will have all the drive, rhythm and stamina you need to tackle all your tasks -- and complete them with the grace and ease of a real dancer."
Ever since Jo told me that she started playing her Bob Seger every day and trying to dance around and move (even if it's just tapping a foot) constantly, that she took off 4 more pounds, i have started trying to at least listen to more music and MOVE MY BODY.
OH SURE...I DID lie in bed and sleep off and on till almost 3 pm today...it was a cloudy, moist, cool morning, and I had stayed up all night on the computer looking for "writing programs, and grammar checker" downloads, as well as material to use in my NEW, UPDATED WEBSITE that I am going to begin re-vamping this month and throughout the winter..which is at http://www.geocities.com/webscoollinks
THEN when it's complete, I will purchase the domain for it again, but this time under a catchier name.
ANYWAY...GTG - "LIFE" my new favorite Fall program, Channel 24, 9:30 pm, is on. I Can't miss it.
TTYL!!
God Bless,
TTR
PS. LIFE on NBC:
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/2007-Fall-TV-Preview-Life-on-NBC-6264.html

Life - Season 1

Premieres: Wednesday, September 26th at 10:00 p.m. EST
Network: NBC
Creator(s): Rand Ravich
Starring: Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi, Adam Arkin
Website: NBC.com

Watch Life on NBC
Don't Miss the New Series - Life on Wednesdays at 10/9C only on NBC!
www.NBC.com/Life

THE RUN-DOWN:
Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) was a succesful Los Angeles detective before he was sent to jail for a triple homicide he did not commit. After years in prison, in solitary lockdown because of his reputation as a cop, Charlie is finally exonerated and sent back to the force. He’s partnered with Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi), who served her own time in rehab after her career working undercover in the drug world got a little too real. He’s also got the help of Ted (Adam Arkin), a friend from the inside who’s genius with money-- even though he’s an ex-felon. Now Charlie has to do his duties as a detective while still coping with the new reality of life on the outside.

"PREVIEW PULP"
Meh. Police procedurals do little for me unless they’ve got a neat hook (the upcoming New Amsterdam, for example). The idea of a cop who’s been in prison just doesn’t intrigue me-- don’t all TV cops act like they have some special insider knowledge? It’s also strange that there’s been virtually no promotion for this show, given that it comes right after Bionic Woman, which NBC is clearly expecting to be their new cash cow. As someone who can barely watch House without getting annoyed at the formula, I have my doubts that Charlie Crews will be a character worth watching this show for.

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I hate to talk against "my people" but...MEN!

I'm noticing something about a male "neighbor" of mine that I picked up on right from the week he moved in...
He was a typical East-Side dude: cocky, self-assured, no job (at the time. In his case, living off of worker's comp, not looking for a job and falsifying some of the info that he was looking moe than he really was), had a nice car which was unusual (but it's a sport racy-type car), but it was broken down, and had a broken windshield because an ex-girlfriend had smashed it. (probably, because he was unfaithful, I'm guessing): TYPICAL!

He was just the sort of guy that I am sucked in by, and attracted to most of the time...and I noticed it right from the git-go.

He wasn't really awesome looking, but not bad; it was mostly that cockiness that made me feel the same ol' feeling but, going what i had gone through with my last ex, i know now (finally0 to fight this attraction off and move on. My "Old" Doug had it, Paul Bertok had it, Larry had it...and they all broke my heart, and in some cases had fooled around on me. Actually Doug is STILL a jerk and Larry is a big bragger, and both of them are fast-talking, don't-want-a-regular-job-because-they-owe-child-support, eat-the-women's-food and get them to buy their beerm SLEAZES! But they were cute. i thought so anyway. Most of my friends would beg to differ.

This neighbor guy, I am noticing, since he has gotten a job (from what he told me, it sounded good - desk job - so easy he could nap at it!) worked for about 10 days...then (he told me) called off this past Saturday (I almost went over and woke him up - something in me just wants him to succeed! But it wasn't my place! It was 4 am, which was when he usually leaves, and I am usually up because of my insomnia), Now, today, here is his car sitting there again on a weekday. WELL SURE! One usually has a 90 day trial period. If you call off within that period of time, forget it, you're done; fired;kaput.
I would be VERY surprised if he still has this job.
BUT LIKE I SAID - IT'S NOT MY BUSINESS. NOT DO I CARE. I am just making an observation, like I said.

Now you are probably seething - who am I to even be noticing, a nosy-neighbor? Well, like I said, I am simply making an observation: that I will never meet a man that I am actually attracted to that is worth a damn here in East Toledo.

"I gotta get outta this place, if it's the las thing I ever do," "We gotta get outta this place, GIRL(S) THERE'S A BETTER LIFE FOR ME AND YOU" (THE BYRD'S IS IT?)

PLEASE - FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME IF YOU THINK I'M WRONG!
Have a good one,
TTR

My "One Saturday Mornings" (for the last 10 years)

"ONE SATURDAY MORNING" Disney cartoons have been a tradition with me and my daughter ever since she graduated from Barney and Sesame Street children's programming to regular cartoons, and for both, we have always watched them together.
Either with Oreos and milk, or potatoes, eggs, and toast, or curled up in a quilt on the floor or the couch.
Now that My baby girl's 16, we've, just this year, stopped watching them together, but I still love them so much, I set my alarm so I can be sure to get up to watch "my cartoons". Even the re-runs...

The best period of time was when they still were broadcasting "Doug" and "Pepper Ann" in my opinion. If I had cable, I could still watch some of the old ones.If you enjoy any of these cartoons too, please write and let us know what your favorite episodes or cartoons were!

You can find links for all the shows below at: http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/
or by clicking on each of the program names.


The Emperor's New School(33 Cartoons)Based on the Disney movie "the Emperor's New Groove".



The Replacements
(3 Cartoons)
..(NO WAY! bcdb.com says 3 episodes; I know there are at least 6 because they play them alternately, every Saturday, over and over!)

That's So Raven




EPISODE CAST AND CREW
Actors
Raven Symone............Raven Baxter
Orlando Brown...........Eddie Thomas
Kyle Massey.............Cory Baxter
Rondell Sheridan........Victor Baxter
Anneliese van der Pol...Chelsea Daniels


Hannah Montana





EPISODE CAST AND CREW
Actors
Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana...Miley Stewart
Billy Ray Cyrus..............Robbie Stewart
Emily Osment.................Lilly Truscott
Mitchel Tate Musso...........Oliver
Jason Earles.................Jackson



The Suite Life of Zack & Cody



EPISODE CAST AND CREW
Actors
Kim Rhodes......Carey
Dylan Sprouse...Zack
Cole Sprouse....Cody
Phill Lewis.....Marion Moseby
Ashley Tisdale..Maddie


*ACTOR'S NAMES POSTED IN HONOR OF MY SPECIAL LITTLE BUDDY, WHO KNOWS ALL THE NAMES: Cody Benore

WHEN THESE ARE OVER, I CHANGE THE CHANNEL OVER TO WGTE "Qubo" cartoons for an hour...till the morning concludes for me at 12:30 pm. The Power Rangers weren't too bad, (I watched them for about 6 months) I just happened to like those last two "Qubo" toons better.


These include:

Jane and the Dragon


and


Jacob Two-Two








THEN..sometimes I'm lazy and fall back to sleep for an hour or so, or sometimes an afternoon movie begins at 1pm on FOX and I continue to lay on my fat lazy butt and watch that. But if I decide to be good, my daughter and I start on our Saturday chores as soon as the main set of One Saturday Morning Cartoons are over.


HERE'S A LIST OF SOME OTHERS THAT WERE SHOWN ON "ONE SATURDAY MORNING" on ABC OVER THE YEARS:

(information and links supplied from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Walt_Disney_Studios/Television/)


The Adventures of Lilo & Stitch
(59 Cartoons)


Disney's Lloyd In Space(21 Cartoons)


The Proud Family (53 Cartns.)


Disney's Kim Possible (88 Cartoons)




Pepper Ann
(60 Cartoons)




Cast
Kathleen Wilhoite - Pepper Ann Pearson
Pamela Adlon - Margaret Rose "Moose" Pearson
Danny Cooksey - Milo Kamalani
Clea Lewis - Nicky Little
April Winchell - Lydia Pearson
Kimmy Robertson - Gwen Mezzrow


Luke Perry - Stuart Walldinger *FROM ANOTHER OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS FOR 11 YEARS:
BEVERLY HILLS 90210!*


Jenna von Oy - Trinket St. Blaire *AND FROM ANOTHER OLD FAVORITE: BLOSSOM!*





Don Adams - Principal Herbert Hickey




The finale of Pepper Ann aired November 18, 2000.



Disney's Fillmore!(26 Cartoons)




Disney's Hercules (65 Cartoons)



The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa(140 Cartoons)



Disney's The Weekenders
(78 Cartoons)



Disney's Teacher's Pet(47 Cartoons)






Disney's Recess (131 Cartoons)





If you've watched it as much as I have, you may enjoy this RECESS QUIZ:
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/ForChildren/The-Disney-Cartoon-Recess-64832.html



Out of all of them, my VERY FAVORITES were:
"Pepper Ann", "Recess", and, "Doug":


Disney's Doug





YOU CAN PURCHASE THE ENTIRE DVD SET BY GOING HERE!:
http://www.nickclassics.com/store/product.php?productid=21803&gclid=CMXikLa0144CFSadIwodTiIM8A


The complete original 4 Season Enhanced DVD collection of the hit show on 8 disks- which ran from 1991 to 1994. All 104 commercial-free episodes, plus bonuses in one great collection. Each of the 52 - 30min episodes consisted of 2 seperate episodes making it 104 total. We have chosen to only include the original series (seasons 1-4) and not the later Doug airings as they do not compare to the original show. Professionally packaged in a sealed box set, ready to make a special gift for you or someone else. Get this classic DVD Set before it's gone, only limited quantities are available at this price. Only Available from nickclassics.com.
(My daughter was born in 1991 and I was dating someone named Doug by 1994!)

YOU CAN JOIN THE DOUG FUNNIE FAN CLUB BY GOING HERE:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dougfunniesfanclub/


Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
(I never watched this one - didn't like it even though I LOVE TOY STORY..)


W.I.T.C.H. was shown for a short while. I thought this was AN AWFUL cartoon to show children. That's all our kids need is to want to become witches!! Thankfully it didn't last long at all.


Jane and the Dragon Song Lyrics


There once was a lady in waiting
Let's call her Jane.
That girl wasn't ordinary-

No way for me a lady stuck in waiting
I'd rather battle fire-breathing dragons
I knew I could prove that a girl could be a Knight
Though my friends all laughed at me
but...

I wouldn't be discouraged and trained in secret
Then a dragon pinched the Royal Prince
and everyone was freaking
So I went alone to the dragon's home
to slay the dragon

Hey now, hey now now

Jane and the Dragon are best friends now
Dragon's sweet, he let me save the young Prince
Then the King made me a Knight apprentice

Hey now hey now now...

With Dragon's help I'll be a Knight someday

Composed by Martin Kucaj
Lyrics by Arlene Bishop
Published by Cinesymphonies, Nelvana Limited 2005


Link to all Disney Cartoon Guide: http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Walt_Disney_Studios/Television/

VAN HALEN, thanks to my brother, I'M GOING!

This was so important (to me) that I posted it on BOTH of my blogs:

....Cleveland: Quicken Loans Arena
OCTOBER 10, 2007

I'm so excited I could cry.

I still have to find a hotel under $50.00,(my little brother's treat as well!), I have a plan of just about what I'd like to wear (ruffled-front shirt, short motocross-type black jacket, straight-leg Levis. etc.)...the planning and anticipation is ALMOSt as fun as the event itself, I think.
I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT WAIT.

Any of you other readers going to see them play this tour?
I can share some awesome tracks with you to help get you psyched up!
LET ME KNOW!

OH AND WHAT A RELIEF
...after I read this story, I don't feel so bad about going to a concert, making signs to hold up, & rocking out at 48 years old:



Eddie Van Halen, Acting His Age

As we grow older, so do our icons. Suddenly the latest "hot young things" seem barely legal (Keira Knightley, Lindsey Lohan) and Keith Richards' decomposition is finally somewhat age appropriate.

And, although apt to grumble about our own advancing years, we also make excuses for ourselves. We don't tend to be as forgiving of our objects of idolization. If they show their age, we mercilessly take note of every sag, every wrinkle. If they try to hide it with makeup, dye or surgery we tend to disparage their refusal grow old gracefully. In short, we want it both ways. We seem to expect our icons to always just shine on as is, forgetting that the camera can be unkind to someone who has lived in front of the flash for a few decades.


(AP)Still, it was jaw-droppingly upsetting to see this photo of Eddie Van Halen come across the wires from Sunday's Oscar after parties.

This is almost too much to bear. 1984 - both the album and the year - may have been two decades ago, but in 1984 Eddie Van Halen was generally agreed to be the hot Van Halen brother (sorry, Alex)... at least around my junior high. And he is over a decade younger than the afore-mentioned Mr. Richards (who has been considered the extreme example of an aging rocker for about a century now).

At 51, Van Halen has had a rough past decade or so. He lost his mom, split with wife of 24 years Valerie Bertinelli, battled alcoholism and cancer and weathered so many reconfigurations of Van Halen that even I'm drained. Also, he's never traded on his looks; he staked his claim on his guitar wizardry.

This time, let's give him a pass -- let's remember Eddie in 1984 and remember that after what he's been through, he's a survivor in 2006. But maybe we can have it both ways. We can agree to look at Eddie with a forgiving eye, but maybe Eddie could agree to tame the hair, see a good dentist and stand up straight. And maybe we can hope, just a little, that the rumors about Van Halen being the next "Rock Star" reality band are true.

FROM: blog.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2006/03... by Liz | March 7, 2006; 11:00 AM ET | Category: Celebrities
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AUGUST 22: MySpace 6 hr. streaming concert including MY FAVORITE BAND: My Chemical Romance!

'DECIDED TO HELP TOM OUT AND FORWARD THIS MESSAGE:

MySpace Announcement from Tom
Latest Update: Aug 21, 10:00pm PDT

"i wanted everyone to know about the linkin park, my chemical romance, taking back sunday / projekt revolution concert that's showing live tomorrow on myspace: check it out here myspace.com/nowwhat"

Get this widget!

GO HERE FOR MORE DETAILS: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=217700935

ENJOY! (hope I remember tomorrow...)TTR

RAINED OUT: the Hungarian Festival and MY LIFE

East Toledo's famous annual Hungarian Festival is still going on, but without me. I am SO DEPRESSED! True, it has been raining off and on all day, but I talked to someone who is already there and the festival is still going strong, and plenty of people were there milling around, buying awesome Hungarian food, listening to great music (a friend of mine, Bill Leonhardt, who played in Pictures, my band ex-husband played bass for, is playing drums in another band at the festival today. I REALLY wanted to go and listen to them! AND see a BUNCH of people who I haven't seen in a while - that's the MAIN ATTRACTION of the HUNGARIAN FESTIVAL!)..until 9 pm tonight in fact. I called anyone I could think of that might want to go with me, and that could pick me up (since I no longer have a vehicle) and had no luck. One person I knew That might want to go with me, had already left for it, one person was working, another one who offered to take me and hang out, either decided to go after telling me he wasn't going because of the rain or isn't calling me back, or went and didn't feel like getting me now, and the other two are evidently avoiding me because I know they have their phone with them and didn't return my page or cell call.
(sigh)...This reminds me of last winter...
The Hungarian Festival is actually the beginning of Fall for me, because after this festival (Ethnic Festivals = Summer here in Toledo)it's the Greek Festival, the weekend of Sept 8th, then school is in (our's starts August 27th already!!) and the Fall just flies by, then the cold weather starts. Before you know it, it's Halloween, then Christmas,(Christmas has become SO STRESSFUL for me with family shit and lack of money to make my daughters holiday something to really look forward to) then the THREE UNGODLY MONTHS OF DEEP DEPRESSION FOR ME, when the only thing that makes me feel better is eating.(I still have ONE MONTH to get off 5 pounds, almost impossible for me when all we have to eat is crap in the house and no money to get fruit and healthy food, and get under 200 at least!)Throughout the winter, I don't hear from anyone, no visitors, no calls, no going-out, nor do I have any extra money. (Hell at this point, I probably would give-in and go to the bar just to be around some PEOPLE!)

But....the NASCAR Race up at Michigan International Speedway (about 45 minutes away) was rained out, and that was the only other thing I had to look forward to today. In the past 5 years, I used to AT LEAST be up at Sunny's Campground, camping behind Karl (who passed away last month) and JJ, trying like hell to talk someone at the campground into driving up to MIS to LISTEN to the race and be in the mix! I didn't even go camping in the past 2 years,(except once for my daughter's birthday out at Maumee Bay). Anyway, the race is supposed to re-air tomorrow at noon. The forecast says rain for the next 3 days so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
The "Hunky" Fest will not be postponed. They are all partying right with the rain. This is it for the year. And this is my life for this summer.

I need to find a friend that LIKES ME. And I need a boyfriend even worse (I'm finally READY I DO BELIEVE), and I need to get my finances in order (Oh I have a water line leak, a mushy area in my grass too - it looks like I have a leak in my pipes and that costs about $1,200.00 to fix, my neighbor, Victor said..that's all I needed to push me over he edge. Time to sign up for counseling again....

GEES! I HOPE THIS IS PMS! I HATE TO THINK I HAVEN'T PROGRESSED AT ALL THIS YEAR! I'm still spinning my wheels.

Ta Ta for now,
TTR
PS. Please pray for me.

Channel 13 news: thank you for exhibiting what IDIOTS LIVE IN EAST TOLEDO

Just now, on the 11 o'clock news, Channel 13 showed construction workers getting frustrated because places that were just steamrolled (to prepare them for paving..the intersection of Fassett and Oak has been closed for MONTHS) were driven over by idiot-twenty-something drivers, actually it showed a woman in her 20-30's with a cigarette in her hand, watching them steamroll the road to get it ready to pave, ANYWAY, SHE DRIVES RIGHT OVER IT AND THEN THEY HAVE TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. The news clip even showed the construction guy shaking his head and talking to his co-worker like he was saying 'Can you believe these people?" and then the chick drives away like nothing's wrong!! OMG - this is CLASSIC East Side behavior and it really pisses me off. I mean, here I am, sitting down and opening my blog and writing about it, it purturbed me so much! It gives all of us East Toledoans a bad name.
Here are some other examples of the ignorance that I witness on a weekly basis:

"Don't-Know-Who-My-Baby's-Daddy-Is" white teenage mothers, with their mixed-race babies all walking together, talking "black-talk" or bitching loudly on their cell phones, with their fat stomachs hanging out of their tight little crop tops, showing how STUPID they were, while collecting welfare, food stamps, and WIC.

Teens and "kids" in their early 20's, hanging out all night long, some on their little teenager bicycleses, being extremely loud and disrespectful, then THROWING THE BOTTLE THEY DRANK (beer/liquor) OUT OF, INTO THE STREET OR SIDEWALK, busting the glass all over the place, THEN thinking nothing of it, laughing. When you ask then to please pick it up, they say back, "F*&K OFF".

Black guys who pull their "privates" out in public and try to get girls attention when they are walking by; THEN some girls actually walking over to them and letting them feel under their shirt...and follow them in the door...not knowing them at all!

Women who have nothing better to do - usually older ladies but not seniors, walking their dog at all hours of the night, making all the neighborhood dogs bark inside their houses, then LETTING their dogs poop in others yards!! (I have a neighborhood lady that does this nightly - SO RUDE!!)

OH there's more...I'll come back to this when I need to let of some more steam. I'd rather write about positive things...And I really do not ENJOY making MY area of town look bad. I have LOTS of East Side pride. I just wish we could ship these LOSERS to the mountains or something, and then we would never hear from them or see them again.

HAVE a NICE DAY! TTR

WHAT'S UP WIT' ME (a memior) from letters I've written this week

"Through each person under the sun,
Let the Will of the Creator be done,
Namaste, Shalom, As-Salaam Alaikum;
>>>I have never heard of these names for God.
What religion are you two into these days?
I AM, Joyfully, Don"

THAT'S HOW HE SIGNED HIS LAST LETTER..

SEE ROBIN'S EGGS http://www.robinseggs.blogspot.com
FOR A POST ON DON WALTON. MY VERY GOOD FRIEND,
AND FIRST AND FOREMOST, MY BROTHER'S VERY BEST FRIEND EVER SINCE HIGH SCHOOL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HELLO MY LITTLE WALTONS!!
(to Don and his new wife, Lori as of New Year's Eve at mignight, 2007)
Ok - now what new thing are you two into???
I wondered why I haven't heard back from you.
Are you two trying a new church?

I wrote you a long letter a month ago...nothing back. WAAAAAAAAAAAA
you are losing touch with me!!! I AM GETTING SCARED!

FYI - in case he hasn't gotten a hold of you, Ron got a job where he is traveling all over the 5 state area. He is doing well and keeping in touch with me at least every two weeks. I AM SO HAPPY.

He works 12 hours a day - he said he has NEVER worked this hard in ANY job he has ever had. But he says he still is a fatty. He says he has a BIG OL' GUT. Because he is eating fast food all the time. They pay for the hotel and they have to buy their own food. he said that even if he did buy food to cook in the room's microwave, that when he gets off work, he is way too tired to cook.

Any way - just so you know where he's at from now until December, here is his schedule: (NOT POSTING FOR PRIVACY REASONS)
NY OH PA WVA, etc..

We are doing fine here. I am unmotivated as ever. Don't know if it's depression or laziness. It's been about a month since I busted ass and got a ton of cleaning and organizing done.
I sold my car - it needed engine work supposedly (Auto Zone guy said he had a car Just like mine and I needed valve work and they are inside the engine. Then I got REALLY lucky and sold it the next day to a neighbor for $200.00, and it wouldn't even drive over 25 mph! Come to find out that it was THE EXACT THING THAT I WENT TO AUTO ZONE TO BUY!! A GAS FILTER. IT WAS ONLY 8 BUCKS!! Well it really was a blessing because then, the next day after she got it fixed by her mechanic, the transmission started slipping...it would wait a long time before going into 2nd gear.
So I am going to have about an extra $70.00 a month with no car ins. and gas $$, and maybe can buy food when we need it for a change and/or pay on a bill. It feels very "freeing" to not have a vehicle, but it may also be why i am isolating myself worse than I was before. It could be PMS too.

So anyway - actually there's MUCH more to tell but I don't feel like typing it all.

SEE ROBIN'S EGGS http://www.robinseggs.blogspot.com
FOR A POST ON KARL WATKINS, A VERY GOOD FRIEND THAT I MET AT SUNNY'S CAMPGROUND.

A very dear friend of mine, Karl, from my Sunny's Campground gang (he and his wife let us camp on their lot ever since we started camping there for free..) passed away from pancreatic cancer that had spread to his liver by the time he went to the doctor. Once he finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed, he passed away 6 weeks later. He had lost 100 pounds and refused to go to the doctor before that. He just told everyone that he lost weight because he gave up french fries! I just went to his funeral last Friday. I've been pretty sad all week. I was so glad that my (was my ex-friend for the past year) friend Kathy

SEE ROBIN'S EGGS http://www.robinseggs.blogspot.com
FOR A POST ON KATHIE SEBETTO, WAS MY VERY BEST LOCAL/EAST SIDE/CAMPING FRIEND TILL LAST YEAR WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED..

sent me a letter and told me he was sick or I would have never had the chance to go and visit him and tell him how much he meant to me before he got too sick. I just don't understand why none of those people ever called me for a whole year, but I am sure glad we are back in touch again.

If you get a chance to call - like if neither of you feels like telling me everything that"s up with you in an email, the best time to call is AFTER 2 pm...I've been staying up all night and sleeping most of the day - that's my dream life...till school starts anyway. My daughter is gone most of the time with her boyfriend and his family. She just got back from going to Disney World with them for 9 days about 2 weeks ago!! They are very nice and John's (her BF's name: John Toth)Mom comes to pick her up and drop her off all the time.

SEE ROBIN'S EGGS http://www.robinseggs.blogspot.com
FOR A POST ON JOHN TOTH, FROM POINT PLACE; WHO GRADUATED FROM MY DAUGHTER'S SCHOOL THIS PAST JUNE,AND IS VERY TALENTED, INTELLIGENT, CUTE AND NICE.

It was my kid. She came in, argued with me when I asked her why she hadn't checked in with me since 2 pm then went to bed. So I sat here and waited up all this time just for that. I'll name my ROBIN'S EGGS posts, but then will work on them this week.

I'M GOING TO BED.
XOXO g'nite, TTownRobin
God Bless

Blog-City is a nice place to live, but it's sure gotten EXPENSIVE!

This is what my Blog USED to look like:


I really miss it. It was called toledoeast.blog-city.com.

I could add music that would play automatically depending on the entry (like a theme song) , we could view our posts in WYSIWYG, preview, or standard HTML , and photos & music we're stored on their servers, so that if we chose to use something again, it would post much more quickly. The best part was that you USED to be able to completely design your entire layout: no "widgets", no templates if you chose not to have them, and no limited fonts. It was great, for 3 and a half years. I am now going through withdrawal.

I left Blog-City for good, about 2 weeks ago. The price to pay had become too high. Although I had the premium membership which was $3.50 per month, the option to stay there for free was always available. Then came the "takeover"...

Widgets were forced upon us, unless we chose to forfeit support. That meant if I were to choose to keep my unique layout, that took YEARS to perfect, I would lose any possibility for available assistance. I felt betrayed.

To make matters worse, a monthly fee of $4.50 was imposed with no option to choose. Long-time faithful members were told to "pay up or get out". I had no choice but to leave. A yearly fee of $54.00 would take away two Christmas gifts from my child in the long run.

So if you ever pass by a blog at Blog-City, think of me, if you would, and all the wonderful, cleansing posts I had there. And, please, give my regards to the Mayoress.

http://www.blog-city.com/

Just a few things I miss about living in PENSACOLA FLORIDA

THINGS YOU LEARN WHEN LIVING IN THE SOUTH:


Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in the South.

There are 10,000 types of spiders.

All 10,000 live in The South plus a couple no one's seen before.

If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.

Onced and twiced are words.

It's not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

People actually grow and eat okra.

Fixinto is one word.

There is no such thing as "lunch." You eat Breakfast, Dinner and Supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two.

And they do like a little tea with their sugar!

"Jeet yet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat yet?"

You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is.

You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.

YOU KNOW YOUR FROM THE SOUTH IF:

You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."

All the festivals across the states are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

No one wants an angry burglar.

You know what a "DAWG" is.

You carry jumper cables in your car . . for your OWN car.

You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page,

but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.

You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."

You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.

Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as"goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather.

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor.

Example: "What kinda coke you want?"

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

They don't need no stinking driver's-ed... if your mama says we can drive, we can drive.

You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from The South

(and those who just wish they were, OR WISH THEY WERE BACK "HOME", LIKE ME).

POSTED IN MEMORY OF MY EX-MOTHER-IN-LAW,

whom I think of OFTEN:

MATTIE EMMA WARD

(WHO IS UP IN HEAVEN NOW, WITH MY OWN MOTHER,

and they never really hit it off - hope things are better now!)

Why Doug didn't call.. and WHY IT'S A GOOD THING

Another pissy, dull day. Better than being dead tho....

Doug didn't call I found out, because they guy I met with him up at the bar on Doug's birthday,
Tim, died. He called me yesterday, all broken up and teary, to let me know that Tim had shot himself in the head and was dead. Sad. Things were really shitty for that guy, I was saying
how much Tim was complaining that night, and I didn't want to go back the night time he
invited me because I didn't want to hear Tims bitching again...here it was something he
needed to do. he needed to vent and for someone to care. Maybe not me,
I barely knew the guy, but maybe for someone not to mask his problems in alcohol,
but maybe to show him a better way to move on. he must not have found a better way
and decided that nothing was good for him here anymore. he supposedly drank
3 bottles of booze, say on the edge of him bed at his parnets home
(who lives in Florida now I guess) and shot himself in the head.
They found him with his shirt up, and Doug was thinking that maybe
he tried to stop the bleeding because he didn't die right away.
Here is his obituary: http://www.legacy.com/toledoblade/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=19201555
I went to the guestbook to leave an entry and the family deleted it.
It mentioned about Tim reaching out, and being sad and depressed,
and they MUST HAVe thought that it was innapropriate. GEES MAYBE
THEY FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE DOUG SAID NONE OF HIS FAMILY
EVER KEPT IN TOUCH WITH HIM...not his brother Ray or his Mom anyway.
Not so much as he had to sleep in his truck for part of the 7 months
here was back up here in Toledo...(Doug said that Ray wasn't even
going to go to his memorial (yesterday). Ray is one of the guys that my
ex-friend Kath dated a year or so ago. He's a bar-fly too. )
Seven months ago, Tim left Florida where he lived, after he left his wife
whom he caught fooling around on him after 9 years of marriage,
and who he told me, wouldn't let hm see the kids.
I'm not saying that none of it was his fault, I only wish I would have
listened a little bit more instead of not wanting to be around him
because he was so negative. I am still pretty pissed about the family
deleting my entry, so I wrote another one.
http://www.legacy.com/toledoblade/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?
PersonId=19201555
If you knew Tim laBounty - above, is the link to the condolences book.
I pray that Tim did not feel any pain-he'd had quite a bit before that
...May God rest his soul.


And here is just a forward I recieved about WHAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE;
I kinda liked it...
WELL SHIT - I CAN'T GET THAT THING TO POST SO
SINCE I LIKED THIS BETTER I'm POSTING IT INSTEAD. DAMMIT.

HOPE YOUR MOOD IS BETTER THAN MINE.
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE SPRING SHIT ON ME for the
NEXT DAY when I ALREADY HAVE PLANS.
THAT'S WHY ELSE I AM IN A SHITTY MOOD.
I GET A CALL AT 9:30 PM TONITE...ready to go to bed..."I'll be there tomorrow morning"
I HAVE TO GET MY DRYER FIXED WHEN I GET THE OFFER FROM SOMEONE. I REFUSE TO CHANGE IT.
SO SORRY- YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT OUT THERE TILL
I'M FREE FOR ME TO CALL YOU BACK AND GO OUT AND MEET YOU.
I CANNOT BELIEVE I COULDN'T GET A LITTLE MORE NOTICE
THAN 9:30, THE NIGHT BEFORE!!
ANYWAY, Y'ALL HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
TTR
:P

UPDATE:
STILL NOT CALLING AND I AM GLAD.
HE IS WITH SOMEONE AND WE WILL NOT EVER MAKE IT AND THAT'S A PROVEN FACT. WE HAVE GOTTEN ALONG SO MUCH BETTER AS FRIENDS. I GUESS I JUST ENJOYED GETTING THE OCCASIONAL "GUY" PHONE CALL NOW AND THEN (I DON'T WISH TO BE PHONED EVERY SINGLE DAY AND TALK FOR AN HOUR THO - NOTE TO NEW-BUT-GONE-DOUG..)
BESIDES, WINTER IS COMING AND MY DEPRESSION IS SETTLING IN ALREADY - HARD.

I have spoken to him about athousand times since the date this was originally typed.. Most of the time he was driunk. At first i didn't mind. Then the less i began to drink, the more his drunk-calls annoyed me. The last time we spoke THIS TIME, he got mad because he "loaned" me 20 dollars to buy food, (he owes me aver 200.00 from when he lived with me for a year and i bought all his Christmas gifts!) and i said something to him about him calling and bigging me for the money back - which HE DID NOT - he kept calling to "see if the Fergie CD he asked me to burn was done yet". I know his sly calls. I am not ignorant to Doug's ways any longer...

This was taken in 2003. He has aged, like all of us.

He now has a HUGE beer gut, and a buzz cut haircut. But he still gets a good tan.

UPDATE AGAIN: 06-12-07: I broke down and called and left a voice mail message for him today. I hope he calls me back...

My Baby Computer

(buy "Computer Love" by Mmechelle McLendon-Simmons, at http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Love-Mechelle-McLendon-Simmons/dp/images/1401035590)

Sometimes I hve a little excitement down in the pit of my stomach,when I wake up in the middle of the night, and know that I can get up and come out to the computer and read, write, or get lost. That is how I feel right now.

It's 2 am; a group of idiot black loud-ass disrespectful girls was just walking by the hous, yelling and calling each other names. They madethe dog next to me wake up, and then they woke me up.

The comfort of my baby computer, out here waiting for me to type on, make it all okay.

It's a beautiful, starry summer night. It's cool outside; enought to allow the windows to be open and be covered up with a light blanket in your bed.

I am so grateful to have Internet, and my computer, out here to help me enjoy the moments I am up when it's late. I am content. I need to go back to bed so Ican get up early and take my little one to her first day of art classes tomorrow.

Good night and God Bless

(a quote from a much loved and missed comedian and actor: Red Skelton),

TTR xoxo

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A Wonderful Spring Day

Today is June 8th, 2007, and it's hot, very hot. We had a monstrous thunderstorm with vicious lightening, while I was driving across town to the doctor's office, and it only lasted for about 15 minutes. I prayed that it would hit the other side of the river, so I wouldn't have to water the plants and flowers in the yard tonight, and it did! I finished moving the furniture (I also prayed I don't suffer tomorrow for moving as much as I did, but I probably will..) Lindsey even offered to have John come over and help move the furniture. I took that as a hint that she was bummed that the house was all still in disarray from when I cleaned the carpet on Monday night...
I am thinking about Dar, my cousin, and praying that she got through her 90 day rehab okay, and that she is facing each new day with her bright happy smile again. I NEED TO SEND HER A CARD!
I decided to take on a new look about my house and not being able to afford it. I am going to fight for it as long as I can. I paid the damn 615.00 mortgage and prayed that God would make something come up so that I could afford to give my daughter SOMETHING for her birthday.
We are going camping that day, and Paul and little (but now big, I hear, about 5'10"!) Paulie are coming out and camping right next door! I am so GLAD!! party on! AND BETH IS COMING FRIDAY NIGHT and MARTI MIGHT come out on the same night which is LINDSEY'S 16th BIRTHDAY!!
OH - right before I left to go across town, and before it rained, I picked up all the weeds I pulled out yesterday and pulled out a little more. The sunflowers are growing so fast! I can't wait till they're big again! And all kinds of weeds are coming up REALLY FAST. I have to wait to pull many of them because I planted about 30 packs of seeds, and I don't want to pick new flowers by mistake. The yard really looks great.
Pumpkin has no signs of parvo yet today. Praise God. One more day till the incubation period is over. Her best little girl doggie-friend is getting better every day out at East Suburban Animal Clinic. Praise God again and again. My friend Jeremy, Lissie's Daddy was so distraught. I tried to call him but I have the wrong number.
I feel like I have gotten all caught up with my phone calls and am in touch with everyone again. I don't know if it's my short time-of-month, or my Effexor, that I just started taking 5 days ago (but not today - forgot) or the Fat-blocker I took this morning combined with the 1/3 of Monster Energy drink I drank on the way to the Doctor. But i really got a lot done. Even checked up on my checkbook! RIGHT AFTER I GOT UP! Usually I lie there for an hour or 3, trying not to fall back asleep, dreading the day full of stress. I know one thing for sure, it was less stressful because l went to her friend's today after school. They still have to go to school till next TUESDAY! Everyone else is out of school as of today!! Bummer, huh?
The only thing I still need to do is get ready for that Block Watch meeting that is coming up fast - on Thursday of next week. IN 6 days! Ii still haven't made flyers OR passed them out (all 500 of them) or dropped them off at the CSO (Community Service officer's) office yet to be copied. I haven't worked on the agenda except for deleting things from last month. 'Just don't feel like it. I REALLY need a partner. Feeling not so good about my work for Block Watch this month. I lost control of the meeting last month and it left me with a apathetic feeling. I pray that gets better. I'm sure it will now.

Anyway - that my life, praise God, in East Toledo today!
Hope things look as good for you too,
XO TTR

PS. IF ANYONE finds a Spell-Check that fixes small "i"s and changes them to capital "I"s, PLEASE LET ME KNOW - I WASTE SO MUCH TIME FIXING THEM ALL!

THANK GOD the Justice System works right SOMEWHERE!

If my little brother, who has back problems and depression, and REALLY want to see his kids, and his ex-wife won't let him (it's been about 8 years now!! - she won't let any of us see them) and IS TRYING SO DAMN HARD TO STAY ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW, has to go to jail for something he did almost 7 years ago - GOT BEHIND ON CHILD SUPPORT and an old DUI- (and a warrant was issued) THAN DAMMIT that prissy assed-rich-bitch Paris Hilton, should have to serve for her DUI AS WELL. In Jail. Man, my bro would have GIVEN ANYTHING just to be OUTDOORS for a week, let alone at home. He has a "medical condition"..

And while we're on the topic, this NEVER has made sense to me:

Why send someone to jail who is behind on child support, just so they can get FURTHER BEHIND on child support, and the jail sentences go on and on...they NEVER can get caught up! Those children need that money to contribute to the family income to pay for their expenses.

I'm so sick of the justice system sometimes. It all needs to be reviewed.

Thanks 4 listening,

TTownRobin

Screaming Paris Hilton sent back to jail

By LINDA DEUTSCH,

AP Special Correspondent

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Paris Hilton was sent screaming and crying back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve out her sentence behind bars rather than in the comfort of her Hollywood Hills home.
"It's not right!" shouted Hilton, who violated her probation in a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she cried out to her mother.
Hours earlier, the 26-year-old hotel heiress was taken handcuffed from her home in a black-and-white police car, paparazzi sprinting in pursuit and helicopters broadcasting live from above. She entered the courtroom disheveled and weeping, hair askew, without makeup, wearing a fuzzy gray sweat shirt over slacks.
She cried throughout the hearing, dabbing her eyes, and her body shook constantly. Several times she turned to her parents, seated behind her in the courtroom, and mouthed, "I love you."
Despite being ordered to serve the remainder of her original 45-day sentence, Hilton could still be released early. Inmates are given a day off their terms for every four days of good behavior, and her days in home detention counted as time served.
Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by Sheriff Lee Baca's decision to release Hilton three days into her sentence due to an unspecified "medical condition."
"I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions," Sauer said. "At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her home."
The hearing was requested by the city attorney's office, which had prosecuted Hilton and wanted Baca held in contempt for releasing Hilton despite Sauer's express order that she must serve her time in jail. The judge took no action on the contempt request.
A member of the county counsel's staff said Baca was willing to come to court with medical personnel. The judge did not take him up on the offer.
Assistant City Attorney Dan F. Jeffries argued that Hilton's incarceration was purely up to the judge. "Her release after only three days erodes confidence in the judicial system," he said.
Hilton's attorney, Richard Hutton, implored the judge to order a hearing in his chambers to hear testimony about Hilton's medical condition before making a decision. The judge did not respond to that suggestion.
Another of her attorneys, Steve Levine, said, "The sheriff has determined that because of her medical situation, (jail) is a dangerous place for her."
"The court's role here is to let the Sheriff's Department run the jail," he said.
The judge interrupted several times to say that he had received a call last Wednesday from an undersheriff informing him that Hilton had a medical condition and that he would submit papers to the judge to consider. He said the papers never arrived.
Every few minutes, the judge would interrupt proceedings, state the time on the clock, and note that the papers still had not arrived.
He also noted that he had heard that a private psychiatrist visited Hilton in jail, and he wondered if that person played a role in deciding her medical needs.
The last attorney to speak was another deputy city attorney, David Bozanich, who declared, "This is a simple case. There was a court. The Sheriff's Department chose to violate that order. There is no ambiguity."
Hilton's twisted jailhouse saga began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night hamburger run.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. In the months that followed she was stopped twice while driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom.
Back before Sauer on Friday, Hilton's entire body trembled as the final pitch was made for her further incarceration. She clutched a ball of tissue and tears ran down her face.
Seconds later, the judge announced his decision: "The defendant is remanded to county jail to serve the remainder of her 45-day sentence. This order is forthwith."
Hilton screamed.
Eight deputies immediately ordered all spectators out of the courtroom. Hilton's mother, Kathy, threw her arms around her husband, Rick, and sobbed uncontrollably.
Deputies escorted Hilton out of the room, holding each of her arms as she looked back.
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Associated Press Writer John Rogers in Los Angeles contributed to the report.

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