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Gathered my goodies for Superbowl night and seemed
like everyone was in the store yesterday. Very busy where
I was. They ran the specials on chips and dips and drinks
as usual. I got to thinking about how the Supebowl got it’s
name.. Came across this on line thought maybe some of
you had not heard it either..
Some Super Bowl Trivia: The first Super Bowl (1967) was broadcast on
both NBC and CBS (with different announcers). Did you know that the
Super Bowl got it’s name from an 8-year old girl? Sharron Hunt was
the young daughter of Lamar Hunt, the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. At the
time she was playing with a small rubber ball called a “super ball”
From watching his daughter he got the idea that the pro football
championship game be called the “Super Bowl”. Lamar suggested
that name to the other owners and they bought the idea! For some
Super Bowl trivia…click here and click here. In most years the Super
Bowl is the #1 most watched TV program of the entire year.
It’s the 2nd top day of the year for food consumption in the U.S. during the year –
Thanksgiving Day is #1. The Pittsburgh Steelers have played in the most Super Bowls (6).
Four teams haven’t been in a Super Bowl (Jacksonville, Houston, Cleveland and of course the Lions).
Michigan has hosted the Super Bowl twice…in ‘82 at the Pontiac Silverdome and in ‘06 at Ford Field.
Those are the only two Super Bowls when snow was recorded at the stadium on game day.
(GUESS they got smart and decided to only have them in warm states from
then on,) I am hoping for a good game and not one sided and lots of great commercials.
I saw on tv that more and more people are submitting their own commercials
this year and can win big money too.
Some of them are hilarious. Just goes to show
Some of them are hilarious. Just goes to showthat AMERICAN people have a great sense of humor and talent.
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Snow is predicted here for Tuesday and onto Wednesday.. I was hoping it would move
more north of me. Traveling in that back and forth is impossible. Heck with 8″ predicted
I won’t even get out of my Driveway without a PLOW.
I attempted to snow throw
I attempted to snow throwthat much last year and it took 2 days as my thrower is not that powerful. I wait to
see what God gives us…I am hoping not to have to stay over as they frown on that
at that hospital.Oh well a heavy snowfall would be an emergency I guess.
HOPE WHERE YOU ARE YOU HAVE A GREAT SUPERBOWL SUNDAY…
THAT’S MY PICK..Don’t care the score just so they WIN!!
EVER feel like you are reliving the day over again?
I mean in the movie Groundhog Day.. the main character
(Bill Murray) relived the same day over and over again
like a stuck record. Me.. going to the tendercare every
day is now so routine that I forget what the heck day it
is. Dialysis day started today at 5 am with a call from
mom asking me if she really had to go there. I told her
YES she had to go.. but I really think it was the time of
day that made her NOT want to go. If she went in the daylight
hours maybe it would be better on her. When I arrived
to wait for her return, after treatment, someone said to me
HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY! I thought .. OH YEAH.. that!!?
That little critter, no matter where he lives in the USA, probably
didn’t care for some guy pulling him out of the nice warm place
he was in to be sported to a crowd of yelling people.
Do we really believe the old myth or saying that
they can predict anything? I think the weathermen
can do all the predicting they want to and still be
wrong. Back when my grandpa was young they used
to use nature to predict things more than anything.
He could look at the sky and tell you if and when
a storm was coming or if spring would be early
by the way the animals acted. There was NO
big predictions from the TV weathermen back
then. I heard one weatherperson speaking today about how forecasters
decided back in July what the groundhog prediction would
be.
EL NINO sure messes everything up. This year has been
EL NINO sure messes everything up. This year has beenso weird for just about everyone in the USA in one way or
another. Poor groundhog has met his match with mother
nature. 
It’s been snowing lightly all day here and I am glad it is
lightly or we would have inches of white stuff to deal with.
Spring seems like a long way away on days like this.
I am making potato soup today for supper to try and warm up.
At least I can FEEL warm inside and dream of warmer days
to come.
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
Had a whole lot of things planned Saturday to do and as
usual they all got changed in a blink of the eye. Mom was
not doing too well after her treatment which meant that
I had to stay with her for most of the day. It amazes me that
things change from treatment to treatment and some days she
is just fine and others not. Anyway.. just as she got up from her
second nap in her afternoon a commotion started happening
and people began to move quickly. An alarm that was not
familiar sounded and I went to see what was going on.
Water was coming from the lighting fixture in the ceiling of
the hallway that had been closed to much of the patients
there. Thank Goodness it happened when it did. Mom and
I had been down that hallway earlier looking at the deer that
had come out of the woods to find food. Any sooner and we would
have been caught and drenched!
The staff started moving people and changing rooms and turning off
water and calling in help. Within a few minutes the whole hallway was
closed off and you could hear the sound of the wet vac sucking up
water. Good thing it happened when it did.. remember that last week
the state inspectors were there . Boy that would not have looked good.
. Boy that would not have looked good.We heard that the facility had 5 small violations and all of them could
be fixed easily so things went well in the inspection. Both the State and
the Govt. did an inspection so I was glad to hear that things went well.
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Here is a pic I took yesterday of a stray out at the tendercare where mom
is now. Residents put up a bag of stale bread for the birds.. one smart
kitty had other plans though..
He didn’t get as much as he wanted to, I think the
swinging bag was a little bit hard on him. Maybe next
time!
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HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
Today the therapist decided to have mom walk more. She had not walked much in several days, so she was reluctant. She had her treatment today and was pretty weak when she got back. They let her take a nap and then brought some of the equiptment to her room for her to use. Nurses reported she did well despite the fact that she had been up most of the night before. Why she is up so much is a mystery. I think it is the time in which mom is given meds but no one else agrees with me.
She was evaluated yesterday on her mental state of mind. She has been more confused lately and the consensus is that the kidney failure has progressed more and she has lost some of her sharpness. I asked her today if it was night or daytime. She said she didn’t know. It was pretty cloudy and gray outside. I was pretty surprised at what she had said. The lights in the hallway are dimmed at nighttime, in the daytime it is quite bright there. Going from ones room to the hallway can be a surprise. Mom left the facility at 5:30 AM and returned near noon! Her day had already gone in her mind. I suppose with little sleep she thought it was night time who knows really.
It was quite the accomplishment walking that distance. The therapist said he was looking for her strengths not the length of the walk etc. He never pushes her more than she can do. I suppose she may feel the soreness tomorrow we will see. Tomorrow is another day…
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Not just one but a faint second one.. it was the talk of the facility as so many
people went running outside or to the windows to see it. It was very bright
and you could see the entire thing from one end to the other.So many cell
phones being used to snap it.. I was the lucky one with a camera.
We had rain on and off today and all the snow is gone. The sun finally broke through about the time for it to go down.
We had thunderstorms this morning, so odd for January, but expecting
snow tomorrow. Sure is a mixed up winter. If all that rain had been snow
we would’ve had 6 inches to shovel.. GLAD it was liquid!!
I sure hope seeing that rainbow means good things for us in the coming
days. I said a prayer for all of us because only GOD can make that
kind of a sign in the sky. It just must mean something good!!
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!
I am a firm believer that you are, where you are supposed to be and who you are supposed to be the minute you were born. Part of GOD's Plan for us all.. he doesn't make mistakes so that is just that! I dont look back and wonder, I instead look ahead and be grateful to be alive and wonder what is yet to be. 