http://greasy.com/dakmom/index.html dakmom's Blog en-us © 19:08:20 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Fri, Aug 19:08:20 8 GMT 30 http://greasy.com/dakmom/flooding_wow.html If you've been watching the news at all, on just about any channel, you're hearing about the severe, record-breaking flooding going on in Cedar Rapids Iowa. That's basically my hometown. I grew up in Mt. Vernon, which is just 12 miles east of Cedar Rapids. The floods of '93 were really something and from what I'm hearing, this flood is passing that mark by leaps and bounds. People are saying that the flood of 93 was nothing compared to this one. I took my son up there to work for a couple ... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:26:27 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/happening.html Howdy all.....I've been really enjoying the last couple of days. I flew my son and his son up here on Wednesday, from Florida. My son is heading back to our home state of Iowa to help a friend with work - making some much needed cash for himself and his family. They'll be here a total of about 3 weeks. Since I am driving him to Iowa today, I'll then go another couple of hours up to where the Slick One is right now and spend a couple days with him. Then, hopefully, on Wednesday, we'll both ... Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:43:06 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/kc_fire.html Pretty spectacular pics on the news last night and all morning...of the big fire at Magellan Pipeline in Kansas City Kansas. For those who haven't heard about it...a tank that holds 58,000 barrels of product (that is 2,436,000 gallons) was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm last night and caught fire. The tank was about half full of unleaded gasoline...so about 1.2 million gallons. All they can really do is let it burn out, which they hope will happen by around noon today. They've d ... Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:23:08 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/kinds_people.html DISCLAIMER: this blog is NOT pointed at anyone of you out there reading this. It is just random thoughts that I have, observations I have made in regards to myself and to people in my life. Please do not take offense. If anything, just read it and see if you see yourself. And if you do, you might take some of it to heart and do what you can to change yourself, if you want to make any changes, or use it to reinforce what you are already doing. So what kind of person are you? Are you one who ... Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:11:18 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/say__.html I have so many thoughts running through my head right now...so many things I would like to say....but my head tells me NO! Keep your thoughts to yourself. No need to burden anyone with your dirty little secrets. No need to open yourself up to whatever others may think. The reason that I ALMOST kept myself incognito here on greasy...to say things that float through my brain, without anyone really knowing who I am, without letting myself be open to hurting, to be open to those ugly feelings ... Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:17:48 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/jiggety-jig.html I'm back in the home saddle for now. Had a wonderful time with the Slick One....and then also with my family for a few days. Missed by a day, seeing an uncle from California, but I was already geared to come home and was ready to sleep in our own bed again. I think the kids were happy to have me home again for a few days. I'm going to have to spend a few days on here, getting caught up on the skinny happenin' on greasy-ground! Went to the course for the first time completely by myself! The ... Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:21:23 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/pleasantly_pocket.html Howdy all. I won't be on here much this weekend....I made the trip north to see the slick one for the weekend...got here on Friday and will leave Tuesday morning. We're trying to play a bunch of golf over the weekend...and of course, just being together is the biggest highlight. When I leave on Tuesday, I'll be stopping by "home" to see some of the family and friends....then will head home...to Missouri. So...computer access will be limited. Hope ya'll have a terrific holiday weekend. We'l ... Sun, 25 May 2008 13:32:56 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/quit.html For those of you who knew me and read my stuff on blogster, you may have already read this.....but it is so powerful to me...and has helped me through some really tough times in my life. I found it one day at a Hallmark store, on a day that I was having a really, REALLY bad day...I didn't know at that point where my marriage was going. There had been some events take place that shook me to the core. And I wandered around the mall, trying not to cry. Feeling alone and lonely, feeling lost. ... Thu, 22 May 2008 13:54:50 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/stereo_buying_experience.html Do they even call them 'stereos' anymore? Or am I dating myself, yet again?! Anyway, the year was 1977. I was living with D at the time. We had gone to Radio Shack to look at a stereo. We found one we liked, but at the moment, we were just lookin' around. When we got home, he called his brother, who lived in M-town - about an hour down the road from us. He was telling him about the stereo we were looking at. His brother was dumbfounded because he had also just gotten back from Radio Shack ... Wed, 21 May 2008 14:39:42 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/lookin_back.html Reading many blogs, and hearing so many asking themselves some of the same questions that I have asked myself over the years, makes me remember that there will always be "things" to ponder in our lives. What if I had gone to a 4-year college? What if I hadn't gotten married a year after high school? What if......so many questions, without answers. But thinking along these lines, and with the help of an "assignment" of sorts....I have been thinking more and more about my past and my childho ... Tue, 20 May 2008 12:43:32 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/beautiful_week.html I'm sorry I haven't been on here blogging much lately. No, wait, I'm not one bit sorry. I spent the last several days with my sweet love. And I'm not sorry about that!! The slick one was able to come home on Tuesday, got here in the middle of the afternoon. He had to leave late this morning, to head back north for work. The trip will take him about 6-1/2 hours, give or take a little. But we had four full days to spend together. That was wonderful. We got to go out and play several rounds o ... Sun, 18 May 2008 19:45:31 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/things_childhood.html It's interesting to me, to think back to when I was a child. I know that all of the things that I experienced are what molded me into the person I am today. Who would I have become if it hadn't been for all that has happened in my life? A question we can all ask ourselves and one to which we will never know the answer. As we grow, and age, we take things from our childhood and use them to better ourselves. Or we take things and learn from them, vowing never to repeat them. That is what lif ... Wed, 14 May 2008 16:47:28 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/life_misery.html Oops - I think I misspelled that....it's supposed to be life in Missouri!! LOL We are getting pretty well settled in to our new abode. But it is a funny thing. Since we are working towards purchase of a travel trailer, so that I can spend all my time traveling with the slick one, I don't spend as much time 'settling' as I normally would. Aside from a couple things that I have hung on the wall (one is a picture of slick with his mom - she passed away in December :>( and the other is my big ... Tue, 13 May 2008 11:13:43 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/chalk_walk_event.html I went "home" this past weekend....to see my family. I haven't seen any of them, save for one sister, in over 2 years. It was a wonderful, but very fast trip. I look forward to going again. Anyway...to the point of this post. My hometown was having their 3rd annual "Chalk the Walk" event. For anyone not familiar with this, they blocked off two blocks worth of the main street in town. In one area was a large rectangle, divided into many small rectangles. The object is to have people sign up ... Wed, 7 May 2008 22:07:35 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/1210022739.html When I was in high school (oops - might be dating myself!!) I read a book titled "Why am I afraid to tell you who I really am?" (I THINK that was the title of it). Right now, I don't really remember much of the book, except for the title. That (the title) in itself gives cause to ponder. I have been thinking of it of late. Why, you might ask? It is because for reasons that I am really not certain of, I have not been ready to reveal who I am...or who some of you already know me as. I don't ... Mon, 5 May 2008 21:25:39 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/faith_restored.html YEA! Thanks for every body who has tried to help me out. Things are working better.....I can add friends now! That's cool. I still can't figure out how to "look up" users...when all I know is their user name. And it seems Eddie got my error to go away. Now I just have a yellow envelope that says I have one Webmail....but can't get to it! Wants me to log in (when I already am) and then when I put in my log in info, it just takes me back to the same screen and tells me to log in. I'll talk t ... Fri, 2 May 2008 12:40:54 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/having_doubts.html I don't know.....guess i'm gettin' a wee bit frustrated with this blog site. Blogster is pretty dead so i have been trying to wiggle may way in here....i've heard of so many peple i know bein' here. But so far, i'm not having any real good luck. for some reason my stuff is hosed. and so far i'm not gettin' anywhere in solving the stuff. i can't send any body a message...unless i put it in one of their blogs. i can't add any friends....yes, thanks to all have tried to help....but there is s ... Thu, 1 May 2008 12:25:38 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/tryin_give_chance.html i don't know about this new place yet. i'm still trying to figure it out. i know some people who have told me they are here,and told me there name but i don't see how i can find them. i tried the place on the front page where it says something about finding a user but it doesn't seemto find anyone. i also have read some blogs and thought i would try adding a friend but havent figured out how to add anybody. maybe i have to be here for awhile first before it will let me add paople. right no ... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:41:41 GMT http://greasy.com/dakmom/place_filled_life.html Don't know what I'll find here.....been other places and they are becoming ghost towns. I'm hopin' this place will have some life...some commentary from all ya'll. Ya don't have to agree with me...sometimes I need somebody to kick me in the butt and rearrange my thinking. I'm good at that....thinking the wrong way. I know a lot of you out here.....recognize a lot of the names from the other blog site. But you don't know me, at least not yet anyway. I decided that I want to write things, sa ... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:21:58 GMT