A day with Arleen

First of all, I want to say - Ignore the date on the bottom right hand corner of the pictures you are about to see. And for that matter, ignore the first thing that comes into your mind when viewing the pictures. You shouldn't be so critical of others.



I didn't have a mission today. I have my Friday's off. Working 4/10 makes long days but I love it. I can do lots of other things on Friday's but I haven't seemed to have found a regular thing to do except visit my SIL, sister-in-law. Let me tell you some things about her. She is older than me. She is opinionated like me, she is from New York, a yankee like me and she enjoys other peoples company more than me.
Arleen needed someone to go to the dentist again with her to drive back home. I took a few pictures along the way.

She set her GPS for her doctor and we went on her way with a stop at her mailbox. It's about half a mile away and took far for her to walk.

She asked if I got a picture of the cute guy on the fourwheeler - but I missed him.

                                                                                                                                Along the way we had to stop a red light in west Little Rock.

I had to take a few pictures again and while she brushed her teeth driving irradically.

Her GPS kept talking to her as she drove. Saying stupid stuff but mainly telling her where to turn. I do honestly believe she would be lost without it.

I waited around for her to get done and visited a couple of stores in the strip mall. A toy store which peeked my interest for about 15 minutes. I looked around and was really amazed at how much new stuff there is for kids now days. I even comptemplated coming back to this store to by everybody toys for Christmas until I took closer looks at the prices. Toys are not cheap. I didn't take any pictures even though I wanted to. Then I visited the bike shop next door. There were lots and lots of bikes. High dollar bikes. Even one with a double seat like you saw on "Three's Company." Looking back, I think that was the first sitcom to portray a strait man playing a strait man protraying a gay character. I can't recall any other sitcom that made gay funny like John Ritter could. Now back to what I was saying, I wondered if they still make simple bikes and they do but they still cost as much as $300. I can say they are honestly not the kind you get at Walmart.


I waited around and waited around. Messed around in her vehicle. Then went back in to watch Disney Channel on the flat screen hanging on the wall. Finally, she came out. I got to drive. After setting her GPS for the closest bank, I drove around missing my turns (whispering "On purpose to make the squirrel talk" but that is just between you and me) After listening to her GPS talk to me in the squirrel voice, I realize that even though it is useful if you don't know where you are going you really don't need it if you do know where you are going.


After our trip and returning to her house to eat supper, I took mom back home with me and stopped at the Harvest Foods in East End. I saw on the rack a magazine for free. I totally love free things and will pick them up just because it is free. But this particular magazine peeked my interest because Robin Lowrey Richardson, formerly on Todays THV in the Morning was on the cover once and she would talk about it on the show. It is called "Little Rock Family" magazine. But what really caught my eye was the words on the cover. "*13 Local Blogs You Should Be Reading" and then right below it "Kyran Pittman Mother, Blogger, Author". I picked up 2 of them because I knew my mom or even my sister would want to read it and I didn't want to share my copy. Hey, did I tell you it was f-r-e-e?


So now, I am home. I open it and find the pages for the 13 blogs I should be reading.


1. www.damnyoulittlerock.com by Kerri Jackson Case
2. www.bootsmcblog.com by JoBeth "Boots" mcElhanon
3. www.karlandkat.com by Kat Hills
4. www.chasingmybees.com by Savannah Butler
5. www.notestoself.us by Kyran Pittman
6. www.erberadaisydiaries.com by Melissa mcCurdy
7. www.thebeedot.com by Amy Bradley-Hole
8. www.jollygoodegal.com by Jerussalem Greer
9. www.tiedyetravels.com by Kat Robinson
10. www.beingryanbyrd.com by Ryan Byrd
11. www.thedramatic.com by Sarabeth Jones
12. www.inarkansas.com/blogs/the-juggling-act by Natalie Ghidotti
13. www.dennie.org by Tara Dennie

After looking up all these blogs, I found most of them use Blogger just like me. A couple use WordPress. They spend a lot of time blogging. Blogging is more than just a hobby. It can turn into a full time job. For the lady on the cover, Kyran, to get a book deal must have been a dream. I can only hope that that would happen to me.


So now I have a goal. A new goal that could possible get me to where I wanna be. I want to be an author. Blogger appears to be a good start. Like most of these woman, I have something to say. I want to be heard. I want to be more than just a redneck from a small town from a family of nobody's. To prove how redneck I am, I drive my husbands 83-84-85 GMC rusted pick-up with a 2 1/2 - 45 airconditioner to work rather than my aircondioned car which I don't trust anymore because the "Check Engine" light is on which scares me. And I am from a small town, Sheridan. And the family of nobody's because we haven't had any famous relatives since Daniel Boone and yes, we can prove it with the family tree my sister, so dilengently, researched.


Please look up the links for the websited of these ladies. Not that they need more readers but let them know you found them on my website.


thanks for reading, until next time, blogging for life

Something to think about

I was on my way to work yesterday when I passed something on the side of the road. I was like "What was that?" Eventhough no one was with me in the truck, I took the time to answer myself by saysing "I'm gonna go back and see what that was."

I pulled over to the side of the road and waiting for a couple of cars to pass before turning around. I slowed down to look closer and decided to go on down and turn around so I could pull over to take a picture. What I saw kind of amused me that someone would take the time to do this and they must be intelligent because none of the words where misspelled like I would find with lots of signs strangers post on the sides of the road.

After getting out my handy camera on my cell phone and zooming in, I took a picture. Then took another picture of the whole thing.

I was surprised that someone would do this. I went on to work that day. I shared this with my sister who published these pic's on her blog for today's THV http://www.todaysthv.com/default.aspx

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link for Pit Bull Attack by DietCola.

If this is true, then this would be the second time a Saline County Officer shot a dog on our road. A while ago, on down the road, someone called the police because this lady had some pit bulls and one got out. Another neighbor said on TV that she saw him shoot the dog for no reason. Did this happen again?

I am not sure, I have no opinion on this matter. I just want to know what is going on in our community. I live in rural Saline County. The country living is not what it used to be. We recently had a neighbor die in another neighbors yard over something . I wanted to get out of the city to get away from crime but it seems to be following us.

Are we safe anywhere we live? In this day and age, it's not the 80's anymore, I can't leave my car unlocked even in the country. We even had someone steal scrap metal out of our yard in broad daylight.

I think that this is something that needs to be address by the newspaper or tv. Nothing surprises me much anymore. What do you think?