Balloons

These are a few pictures I took near the Target store on Paseo Del Norte early one morning during the Fiesta.

Sunset

Thought I'd share the sunset here in Albuquerque. I think this was taken sometime in July 2008. I got the Sandia mountains as well. Cool, huh?

Jimmy

This is Jimmy. Juella's baby, I know it's a cat. But he's a handful. I have other pictures of him and you'll be seeing more of him. He's got problems. He loves to bite people. He's been trying to bite my neck but I won't let him. He loves to use people's legs as a scratcher. Just imagine in your minds how our legs look these days!! Maybe I'll get a picture of 'em one of these days. He loves to play with those ties that come with your breads. He can spend the whole day with them. We run out of them fast as he seems to lose them around the apartment. Not many places to lose 'em but he does. Maybe he eats them. Then again Joan probably takes them away from him. He's got his favorite stuffed animals. He thought that since Juella just has them sitting on the shelf, he'll put them to better use. So those are all over the apartment as well.
He gets the message to those male visitors to the apartment. SCRAM. He knows when to attack those guys. But Corey knows how to stop him from doing that to him. I guess Jimmy will allow him in the apartment, but no one else.

Me and the Rain

Back on August 5th, my niece and I had to return some books we checked out at the library. We had gone to the Library in July to use the computers but were shocked to see they didn't have any computers!!! (This was at the Cherry Hills library). Found out that they were adding new computers and it would be about a month or so before they were back up. So we had to go to the Wyoming branch to use the computer. My computer at home had broken down and I had instructions on how to fix my computer but had to print it out. So we had checked out books and returned them on the 5th. After we left the books there we were both thinking the same thing........"I'm hungry." So we thought we'd go get something to eat. That's the hard part, deciding what we both want. So as we were driving down the road my mom called and asked if we could drop by and take her to the grocery store. Sure we can. It had started to rain as we were driving down San Antonio. I thought it would stop by the time we get to her house. So here I am on interstate 25 and the traffic is going like 25 mph because the rain was just pouring down. I thought I'd get off and take the longer way down to the house. This is all going down hill so the water is rushing down the road with us. Some places the water was covering the whole street. Now we're getting down to 4th Street and it's still pouring. By now the rain usually stops but not this time. By the time we got to the street my parents live on, we noticed that the street was flooded where it usually floods. These people are trying to keep the water from going into their yards and houses. They weren't prepared. The next day there was a pile of sand by the fire station for those that needed sandbags for the next rain................which hasn't come. Anyway, we got to my parents house and took my mom to Albertson's on Coors Rd just north of Montano. That's not too far from home and the rain hadn't gotten to that part of the city. So we were safe. There was a McDonald's across the street and my niece asked if we could get something there. Sure, so after we did the shopping we were going over there. Well, by the time we were done with shopping it was pouring outside. I told my mom and niece to wait till I bring the car around. By the time I got to my car I was just soaked. I got them and we headed to McDonald's as my niece said she was STARVING!!! "Drive-thru" she said. So I did. What a time I had. Just getting wet again with that window cracked to place the order. After placing the order I drove to pay for it. I couldn't figure how so much water got into the car. I paid for the food, drove up to the next window to pick up the food. That's when I discovered how I got water in the car. My windshield wipers was on intermittent and each time it went up, the water came pouring in. I hurried and turned the wipers off so I don't get any more water in the car. Now we had our food and on our way back to my parents house. The rain had started to let up and as we drove up Montano I realized that we didn't have to get the food at that McDonald's. We had another one there on 4th Street!!! I am sure my niece wouldn't have starved to death if she could have waited to go to that store. It was already done with. We had to laugh at what we did.

6 months!!

It's been way too long since I last posted anything. I guess I just don't have enough time in a day. Or not enough time on the computer. I think I am just working way too long in the day. I should slow down and work half days or something. Maybe go out and try to win the lottery!!! Ha ha, what a waste of money though. It's funny though, to watch people go out to buy the lottery tickets when it gets to a certain amount. To me, I don't see much winners from this area so the odds of winning isn't that great. It's always those Easterners that win (I believe that's east of the Mississippi or is it east of NM stateline???) Anyway, I'm not so lucky in winning the big things. I win the small things like CDs, baseball tickets, concert tickets, things like that.

So what's happened for the past 6 months? With my memory, it's would be a miracle to remember all the good things, fun things but I can't. I guess as I try to continue to write I might remember some things.
For one, my niece, Juella got a new kitty. He's a monster, though. I will have to get some pics up of him. He loves to bite and scratch. Especially if you are a guy!!!! I think he gets jealous when Juella's male friends come over for a visit!! It's pretty funny watching them get away from him. His name is Jimmy. He's all white, short hair and a monster. He loves to drag around stuffed animals, doesn't matter the size either. He's funny trying to drag the big ones around. He just goes and grabs something off of Juella's shelf. He loves to play with crumbled up paper. He can play for hours with that. The cat at my work is the first cat I saw do that. Now I hear another person's cat does that, too.
For the past week or so, we haven't had any missionaries in our ward!!!! I didn't know that. Now I know why their lights were on all night long for two nights in a row. Their van was parked in the same spot for three days. I didn't ask where they were, went, just that they weren't around here for almost a week. They both left this morning, headed out to another area. So we have two new Elders but I haven't seen them yet. I live right next to them. I don't know how that happened. Well, I do but it's weird how it happened. I was living in another apartment but that was just too stinky. I didn't like the smell of cigarettes always being in the apartment. Finally the manager came over and she said it was like I was the one smoking. After that they found another apartment for me and I ended up right next to the missionaries and the next building is where my sister and niece live.
More stories to come. It's getting late and I need some rest.............

Fun game

So the rules are as follows:

1. Add a comment on this blog with one memory that you and I share, it doesn't matter what it is or how well we know each other, just anything that you remember.

2. Re- Post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

Video game anyone?

My niece Juella grew up on video games. Her dad thought that would be a great baby-sitter! That's how she got hooked on them. Just sit her in front of the TV, turn the games on, and she'll play all day, no problem. She's a pro at it, too.


She's got many friends who play just as much, too. Good thing she's got those friends or they could be bored to death of each other!!! Me? I really don't know much of these new games. I stick to Centipede, and Dr. Mario!!!!! Not good at these new games! The one she's playing is with the guitar. I couldn't make it passed go!! I think I am suppose to play that guitar the 'left' handed way because I just couldn't catch on to it. Everyone else could get pretty far in it. Next time I will try it with the left hand.
At one time, many years ago, I took guitar lessons but couldn't master it. I believe it's because I could play much better with it left-handed. I pretty much do things with the left hand.

I love this picture of Juella. Guess what? She got a job!!!! Yep, she's a working girl now!! She's working at IHOP. She's not sure if being a waitress is what she really wants to do. I told her to give it some time as no one expects a person to know the job just like that. I told her that she has to give it some time before she decides whether it's for her or not. This is her first job. She's been trying to get one and as one knows that it can be pretty frustrating to find something. I told her get get whatever she can for now and while working can look for the ideal one, if there's one out there for her. I hope she gets the experience so she can find the better ones she'll be happy with. I hope she does decide to continue her education. For a while there she didn't think it was that important. But she's beginning to see the importance.
YYAAAAAYYYYYY!!!! she's working!!
Good luck and best wishes to you Juella!!!

Funny Cat

This morning I got to work and as usual Brooklyn, the cat, greeted me at the door. I go back to the office (I work in the owner's home) and she's at the window waiting for me to open the blinds. Of course I am too slow at getting them open as she's trying to get her head in between the slats. She sits on the window sill looking at the outside world. She'll sit there till someone wakes up. (I get there at 7 AM and the women are still sleeping). Anyway, I had to go to the back office (located in the garage) and when I came out of there, Brooklyn was sitting on the chair waiting for me. Then she jumps off and runs to the other chair and 'hides' between the chair and wall. I saw her run there and was very surprised that she jumped up at me as I walked by. She's never done that before and I had to laugh at her because she missed me. Maybe she was going to attack my shoe or something. She uses my shoes as her 'scratching' post. I just tell her to watch the foot and toes. One day she's going to dig in deep. I wished there was a video camera to catch that. She is a funny cat.

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way Into the Store

Sometime last week I stopped at Albertson's on my way home from work. As I was walking up to the door, out came this shopping cart and first thing I spotted was a case of beer. As I walked closer I was wondering what this person was going to do. Drink it all by himself? Invite friends over? Is he going to drive after drinking? Then someone said "Hi" and I looked at the person pushing the cart and it was someone from church!!! I didn't say Hi back because in my mind a bunch of things were going through my head. Something like "what's Gary doing buying beer?" "are you sure that's beer in the cart?". A few seconds later I said "hi" but I don't think he heard me because he was at his car and I was entering the store. I started to laugh because I put the picture together and figured it was diet sodas that he had in the cart. I had to call his wife and give her a hard time. We were still on the phone when he got home. He said he's kind of embarrassed now because there were a few other people from church in the store when he was there! A few other people know of the 'incident' and I hear talk about that. You know, something like 'yeah, drinking diet soda, uh huh.' 'we know what you really drink.'

Brooklyn

I'm on a roll!!! I thought I'd share some pictures of Brooklyn the cat!!! She greets me at the door every morning when I get to work. She runs to the office and waits for me to open the blinds so she can see what's going on in the world. She loves to look out at whatever she can see. I think there were some leaves stuck on the tree by the window and she sits there staring up at it. Sometimes these birds know she's there and they on purposely come to the window to see what she'll do. Back when the leaves were falling from the tree you couldn't get her away from the window for anything! Well, if she heard that someone was eating in the kitchen she'd go check it out!

Teenagers......................

I uploaded some pictures I had on my camera. This is my niece Juella. She's been wanting me to teach her to drive. She has a hard time driving my car as it's with a stick shift. We go over to the Hoffmantown church parking lot and practice driving. We end up laughing a lot more than driving. She lets the car die out, she skids out as she takes off. Once she gets it going she wants to speed!!!! Once we were driving in the back of the church and there was this rabbit sitting there in the way. She thought it was just something like a tumbleweed and sure put the brakes on as she saw it move. We must have sat there for 5 minutes laughing about it. One day she wanted to drive my car down the street where my parents live. I told her it was ok but she had to back out of the driveway. She's like "Huh? You want me to do what?????" I walked her through it and she actually made it out of the driveway but couldn't get it to go forward. A car was coming down the street so she jumped out of the car and ran!! I had to jump in and move out of the way. Then I told her to get back in and drive down to the stop sign. It's like two tenths of a mile. She did ok, didn't jerk the car like before. I told her practice makes perfect!

Happy New Year

I haven't been around lately. I guess I've been pretty busy with other things that I didn't get a chance to post anything the past couple of months or so. I carry my camera around with me just about everyday so that I can capture some things that are unusual. I missed a few that I didn't have the camera. Like one day I was driving home from work and in the sky were these clouds that looked like Santa and his reindeer! I realized then that I didn't have the camera! Another one was a flying saucer!! You know that Roswell, NM isn't far from here! Who knows, that might have come from there!
We've had snow in the mountains but none here in the city. I guess some people were wondering if we were going to get some more snow like we did last year. But I know it's not going to happen for at least ten more years!! I think we're back into that one snowfall a year and it'll come at the end of January or the first part of February.
I included a picture of the Sandia mountains!