I am the oldest of four kids. We all have our unique qualities. My youngest brother is the artsy one. He is the person you can go to for any type of art and he is able to produce it quickly. One of my sisters is the smart one. I think she could win any kind of trivia game because she knows everything there is to know about anything. I have always been the technology one. I think it will forever be my place with my family. Everyone always comes to me with any and all technology questions. Sometimes it is questions about Microsoft Word, sometimes it is questions about direct tv vs cable and sometimes it is questions about operating a computer. I am always happy to help and I love my family, but the world is getting so advanced with technology that they might need to start learning some things. My mom can’t keep calling me every time she needs to turn on the computer or open a webpage. I keep hoping she will remember, but I keep getting calls about simple things.

Four years have passed since the car accident happened that ruined my life. I was on my way home from work when I was rear ended by a car whose driver was too busy talking on the phone to realize that the cars in front of her had stopped for a red traffic signal.

She rear-ended the vehicle in front of me, pushing that vehicle into the rear of my truck. At the time of impace I was in the process of changing the CD in the CD player, since I had already stopped for the traffic light. I was badly injured as a result of the accident, and we had to hire a lawyer to help us to recover the costs of the accident. I wish that we had been able to find a claim calculator on the Internet back then to help us figure out what type of award we might be able to expect from the accident. As it is we still have not yet settled from the accident, and I am thinking that we never will see any money from it.

Facebook was a good resource when looking to see if this company that offers great Daily Deals is really on the up and up. Come to find out a few people that are my Facebook friends had used this website just recently for some of their Christmas shopping needs and all had good things to say about it. That was good to know, you just gotta love Facebook these days. I never knew how much I would rely and depend on all that Facebook has to offer these days. Kinda makes me wonder what they will come up with next.

So yesterday I broke down and bought a new one. This one cost about twice as much as the first one did; it has more bells and whistles. I don’t know how to use it yet; I am actually a little bit intimidated by it. Being technologically challenged is a sad thing to be in this day and age!

Well, now is really different!  With the Internet at our fingertips, today’s teenagers and young adults are extremely fortunate to have such great websites as the studentcreditcardscenter.com to go to. At that website they can read a lot of great articles about the different types of student credit card offers and brands that are available to the student. There is also a really great article about identity theft that I think everyone should read no matter how old (or young) you are!

I recently found the coolest game. It is called ladder golf or blongo ball, and it is a great tail-gating game or game on the beach. It is very simple to make, but I found mine online. I used our Texas Satellite Star Internet to buy my own ladder golf set. I was exposed to the game several years ago by a good friend of mine. He had a group of people to his house for a party, and he took out his ladder golf set. The game is simply three PVC pipes lined up in a ladder. You toss two golf balls connected to a foot-long string at the ladder. Each of the three ladder rungs is worth a certain number of points, and the goal is to earn as many points as possible each round. Each round you get three tosses with the ropes. The game may not seem that exciting, but it really is a lot of fun. Last year some friends and I had a ladder golf tournament, and my wife and I took second place. I’m excited about taking my set to the beach this summer.

As far as I’m concerned as long as it is made of beef Oscar Myer is still tops in my book and when I have a coupon and/or find them on sale I stock up on them so they are a pretty cheap food that I’ve been enjoying since childhood. My mother always served Oscar Myer and still does.

I try not to call her too much, so I have been communicating with her mainly through emails and texting. It has been so long since we have talked on the phone or seen each other face to face that I all most forget what her voice sounds like for heaven’s sake! So I am so happy to accept an invite from her to join her to watch the fireworks tomorrow night in celebrating the 4th of July. This is something that we have done dozens of times through out the years of our friendship and from many, many vantage points all over the country, depending where we are living at the time. And I’m so grateful that we are both at least in the same state for right now anyway, but after she graduates, who knows where she will end up, it all depends where the best money is to help pay for all the education that was required for her to get into her new field of bettering the environment. Her favorite color has always been green!

Anyway, Ms Joan decided last night to attempt to walk down the stairs to her basement by herself (which has been a big no no for the past year since she experienced a stroke) and ended up taking a tumble down the last 5 steps, landing on the cold concrete floor. It is a good thing that our houses are so close together and that the boys were outside playing in the driveway so that they heard her hollering and came running inside and got me and told me what was going on. Before I went running out the door to help her I called 911 and got an ambulance on it’s way to get her medical attention as soon as possible even before I really knew that she needed a doctor.

I rode along with her to the hospital and stayed with her for the 8 1/2 hour ordeal. Going to the E.R. by yourself just isn’t cool in my book. I even have an E.R. Bag that I keep handy for these types of trips, which I grabbed before climbing in the ambulance. It is always cold in every E.R. that I’ve ever been in, so I have a light blanket packed along with a book,a water bottle, some chewing gum and Tic Tacs, a Word Search or Cross Word Puzzle book, a pair of socks, our extra cell phone charger, a roll of quarters for the vending machines along with a few snacks to help keep the growlies at bay. 

It was a busy night at the E.R. all the doctors and nurses running around in their 100 cotton scrubs, most likely ordered from http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/Original-Scrubs/ all the while trying to keep cool while tending to the dozens of patients that were streaming in and out of the place, demanding of their time and medical talents. They had several box fans located throughout the place that they kept picking up and moving in order to get some type of relief from the horrible heat from this heatwave that we have been experiencing these past few weeks, bless their hearts. As if their jobs weren’t difficult enough all ready.

Anyways, Ms Joan came out of the ordeal with just a few bumps and bruises, she could have easily broken her hip or her neck for heaven’s sake. But they checked her out from head to toe, did all types of tests, poked and prodded her until she was ready to jump out of that bed and get the heck out of there and get back home.