Just me, trying to make it through life

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Netanyahu Speaks to Congress

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Speaks to Congress

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Next Month this March will be my 20^th anniversary of my Heart Attack. It’s a miracle that I have survived that long. Most of my success comes from having Great Doctors, taking care of myself, eating right and going to Cardiac Rehab 3 times a week to exercise. On May 23^rd it will be 20 years that I have been going to Cardiac Rehab.

On the back of my Cardiac Rehab T-shirt it reads “You've Got to Move to Improve.”

Well that may not happen anymore. You see my 1998 Chevy Lumina broke down for good. I have no way to get around anymore like I use too. I always kept myself busy doing something.

I turn 70 years old on August 5^th this year 2015. That’s another Anniversary and it’s going to be a biggie for me. I don’t want to spend the rest of the time I have left stuck in this 1 bedroom apartment without having a way to get around. That reminds me, I have another Anniversary.

This March, I will have lived here in the same 1 bedroom apt for 30 years. I suppose I should be happy that I had a place to live all these years and I do but sometimes I feel like it has been a prison. I’m getting depressed thinking that I’ll be spending the rest of my life without a car to get around, sitting in this one bedroom apartment. I just can’t let that happen.

Friday, January 30, 2015

Romney Won't Run for President in 2016

I am a Republican and have voted for Mitt Romney in the last two elections because I thought he would be the best person to run this country. I still believe that. But Holy Cow, what a blunder you are pulling on all of us. You are doing this country a disservice by not running. I don’t see any of the other Republican candidates being able to beat Hilary, unless the walls come tumbling down on her, which could happen but I doubt it. So it looks like we’re going to have another inapt Democrat running the country again. And that’s the way I see it.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Auschwitz 70th anniversary

http://panorama.auschwitz.org/

Auschwitz 70th anniversary

Today is the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

I would not be born for another 7 months. But that didn’t mean that I had never heard of it. I didn’t learn of the death camps until I got older and everybody started to get TV’s in their homes.

I couldn’t believe the pictures I had seen while growing up. I’m not Jewish and none of my family had been sent to the death camps, it’s just that it boggled my mind that people could do such things to other people.

I never told anybody but I always wondered what it would be like to see Auschwitz. I was curious. Then the other day I came across the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum on my computer. They have a virtual tour. If you want to take a walk through the camp and get an idea of what it looks like without actually traveling there, then this is the place on your computer to go too. There is a mass of information and things that I never knew about.

After taking the virtual tour on my computer, I had nightmares for two nights in row. I thought about what all those people must have gone through.

Here is the link to the virtual tour;

http://panorama.auschwitz.org/

Monday, December 15, 2014

My Photo is in the Republican National Committee's Calender

Well I am Happy to say that I got one of my Photos Published in the REPUBLICAN National Committee’s Calendar for 2015, It's the October photo with all the Pumpkins.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

It's Christmas at the Mall

It's Christmas at the Mall

I took my yearly trip to the Woodfield mall today. They have the Christmas decorations up, so I brought my camera along with me. Seeing all of the Christmas decorations and the people wandering around shopping reminds me of when my Mom would bring me down to State Street in Chicago. They didn’t have Malls back in those days. One of the fun things was looking at all the window displays they had at Marshall Fields. When you went inside they had this Huge Christmas tree in the center of the store that went up several stories. I thought that was the coolest tree I had ever seen. Being a kid was so much fun during the Christmas holidays. Mom always held on to my hand so I wouldn’t get lost in the crowd. I can still feel her touch.

Right in the center of the Woodfield Mall is Jolly old Santa Clause.

I smiled and watched the children sit on his lap telling him what they wanted for Christmas just like I did when Mom brought me down to see him. I don’t sit on his lap anymore but I do make out my Christmas list every year and keep it to myself. Santa knows what's on my list.

In the middle of Woodfield Mall they have Christmas ornaments hanging on Christmas trees that are for sale. That is where I am headed to with my camera. I love photography.

An Angel

I loved This Stocking

The Elf on the Shelf

Santa Clauses

They Just Looked Happy

Pretty Blue Ornaments

What Christmas is All About

When I was through with taking pictures of the Christmas Ornaments, I walked through the stores. I needed to get in my exercise. I was going to stop in the Lego Land store but as you see it was crowded so I walked on. I walked into the Sears store and saw a really nice couch. I was tempted to put in on my credit card but I kept my discipline. I will have to put that on my Christmas list to Santa.

I had a pretty good time at the Mall. In the last store I stopped in, I saw this brightly colored dumb looking stuffed Frog. I laughed at it and took his picture. Santa, don’t bring me this. Its dumb looking, LOL

Friday, November 28, 2014

Schaumburg Fire

Schaumburg Fire

8am Friday November 28th 2014. I was asleep this morning when I heard all these sirens. I got up and looked out the window and saw all these flames coming out of the townhouse across the street. I jumped up and grabbed my camera and started taking photos of the fire. I don't know what happened to the people that were inside but that must be terrible on this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.