Flight 93 National Memorial

http://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm

Flight 93 National Memorial is located in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, in southwestern Pennsylvania.

See the flag in the middle? That is where the plane went down. The crash site itself is accessible only to Flight 93 family members.

This past weekend I went away to my home state of Pennsylvania to visit with family and see the fall colors.

Windmill

Overlook

From Chew On This  by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson

"During the course of a year, the typical American child watches more than 40,000 TV commercials. About 20,000 of those ads are for junk food: soda, candy, breakfast cereals, and fast food. That means children now see a junk-food ad every five minutes while watching TV-- and see about three hours of junk-food ads every week."

This makes me want to watch a whole lot less TV. If I think about the commeicals I see, I can think of lots that are about food. Today I did not turn the TV on and don't plan to later.   

I got a letter in the mail today from my credit card, they are increasing my annual percentage rate (APR). I have never missed a payment, made a late payment, or gone over my credit. I have over a 700 credit score. But they are acting like I am not a great customer. One thing I have learned about banks is that they only make money off of people who don't have good credit or don't pay there bills. Well, I'm out, I don't need the card and I am closing the account. CASH IS THE WAY TO GO!!

Mom picked a big zucchini from the graden and we didn't know what to do with it, so we made bread. Sounds easy right. . . Not for us.  I have lots for cookbooks and that is where we started. Looking in all the books for a good recipe and book after book no zucchini bread recipe. We did find a recipes in one of my Grandma's books.

This is only a little bit of my cookbooks.

This is the bread that we made.

I still had snow on my blog. Snow!  I plan on updating soon.

 I have not posted anything in some time and I do have a lot to post/Blog. About a week two weeks ago I when on a trip to Las Vages for my little borthers wedding. I have lots of photos and stories about the trip.  I had a good time but I don't want to go back to Las Vages again. That is not my type of town.

Anyway, I'm writing today because I'm feeling good today and I'm feeling like a new person. I don't know what happened last night to me, but I'm on top of my game today.  I hope this last. I'm working on myself. I know I can be a better person and do more then now. I have in the past. So today is a new day in my new world. I'm awake and I can see the hope in this world.

Photo of me before getting on an airplane for the 1st time. (Jan 9, 2009)

I'm late in posting this, but I still wanted to put it up.

I took part in the Home Depot 2008 Cashier Olympics. Each store comes up with a float then all the stores meet a one store for the olympics. There are 7 stores in this area.

At my store we did Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like Home Depot."

This is our float. It is a house with witch feet hanging out one side. There is a tornado in the back with the word lowes in it and a newspaper that says "Home Depot blows Lowes away."

This is the group from my store that dressed up.

The Tin Man is a paint suit the was sraypainted. I made dorothy's jumper. I have never sewed anything like that before I made it work.

I'm Glinda the good witch.

This is one of the test in the olympics. You are timed on how fast you can ring up a cart. There are three test in all, the other two are a paper test about front-end policy and knowing which department somethings goes to.

I won 3rd place Best Cashier over all out of 21 people.

I had lots of make-up on. I don't wear make-up at all day-to-day.

I'm glad the Bridal Shower is over. It was way more work then I planned for. Everyone had a good time. I was glad that we could have it and I would do it again if I could. But now I can get back to life.

The flowers I put together for the tables. The mums are the same color she is using in the wedding in Jan.

My cat D was getting some love too.

Opening gifts. This is there new washer and dryer.

Having guys at the bridal shower they didn't know what we were doing with the bows.

The cake.

The bride-to-be and groom-to-be feeding each other cake.

We all had a good time and it was nice seeing all have my family.

I started off the day by sleeping in.   I run out around 12noon and stopped by the post office. I got some good mail. I then stopped for gas, but they were out of gas.  The other day I saw a station out of gas, but the next day they were up and running again. Today was station #2 out of gas. I live in Maryland, how can we be out of gas. I guess all the storms are messing everyone up.

After stopping for gas I had the oil changed. I stop by Jiffy Lube because they do a good job and are fast.

Then I when to the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Station to have my emissions tested. Ok, not my emissions, the emissions of my car. My car pasted the test and now I'm good till Nov 2010.

When I got home I started the laundry and am cleaning up a little. With the shower coming soon we are working on cleaning the house when ever we can.

It is Monday so my day isn't over yet. Every monday I visit a friend that can't get out much. Now I have to get back to life work.