You may or may not know this, but the Super Bowl is coming up.  Perhaps the game will be long over by the time you read this, but I'm in the now, sister.  So I need the 49ers to beat Baltimore.  I'll win $250 which would put me over $1000 won for the season.  I started doing this just for fun and never really bet enough to be stressed about.  Just enough to make the games mean something.

While this place is poopy n' shit, I still have a job to do and I'm working on two larger customers.  I had one yesterday, but they dragged their feet on the credit app and wouldn't ship with us just yet.  It's coming though.  I'm fed a lot of BS in the job, but I also know (most of the time) when I'm being taken.  I think they are legit.  We'll see.  Once I get the business I can feel good about it, but it will only be a matter of time before Areli and the crew lose it for me.  Toyoyoyo.......

The Woman In The Mirror

The woman in the mirror
I always see a smiling face
No matter what life dishes out
She still has poise and grace.
So many troubles
Life has been all wrong
The woman in the mirror
Still sings a happy song.
The woman in the mirror
No one sees her grief
She learned to hide it well
Though she knows no relief.
Sometimes sadness overrules
And she wants to let go
And the journeys of life
Are often too much to know.
She finds the strength somehow
To carry the heavy load
Two steps further forward
Along the endless rocky road.
The woman in the mirror
Her beliefs have made her strong
Knowing there is happiness
That will someday, to her belong...

{©2007 Jan Brooks}

Deanna got a wig for St. Patrick's Day, but guess who ended up wearing it?

Berlin Wall from the Reagan Library.  It was awesome.  If I could go there every day for about an hour just to walk around, I would be at peace with the world for the rest of my life!  It made me feel so calm just walking around.  You should visit.  ;)

1/29-Things are getting pretty heated between the three of us and Dave.  It got rather ugly today.  So much so that Dave sent the three of us home at 3:30.  "Just get out of here....."  Wild.

I had a softball game tonight.  I was considering quitting because of how many guys are non-commital and I'm the one coordinating the team and collecting the cash.  It's gotten to be too much work, but the funny thing is that when I'm out there playing, I'm excessively happy.  I feel that way a lot when I play and I never could figure out what it was.  I thought it was simply because I like playing and it's fun to run around.  However, tonight, something occured to me.  I love playing because you're always sitting in those bleachers:  You're watching me when I play.  Every catch I make in left field excites me because I hear you saying "good catch" at the end of the inning when I run back into the dugout.  It's weird.  We went a lot of places, but softball, for whatever reason, is something extra special for me.  Tonight I had several good catches out in left field (which is where the best out fielder plays in softball, of course), but I didn't get a hit.  Before you talk shit, I walked twice and grounded out to third once.  I only got one chance to hit, really.  We lost, as always, something like 30-14.  We are now 0-4 on the season.  Last place.  Shut it.  It's not my fault!

1/28-Physical Therapy is going well.  My elbow almost feels, maybe, 95%.  That sentence didn't work well, but you get the idea.  I think I'll be able to play by the middle of February.  I've been swinging my racket around the apartment and it feels good to hold the racket, but it's such a tease, too.....

1/27-I went to the Ronald Reagan Library.  I got pretty choked up a couple of times.  He was one amazing man.  He's on the level with Lincoln in terms of patriotism, freedom and a love for humankind.  I took several pictures including one by Air Force One (a plane used for 6 different presidents, I think) which was retired in 2001.  Even though he left office in 1989, they gave it to his library.  There was also a piece of the Berlin Wall, something he was instrumental in bringing down, out on a patio overlooking acres of hillside.  It was a neat day.  It was so peaceful walking through that place that I know I will carry it with me for several days..........