A wonderful weekend!

I have to tell all, I had just a wonderful weekend of family and relaxation to date.  Decorated for Christmas in a warm home is great for the soul! Had a nice dinner on Saturday, a spare of the type moment when we were just heading down to union beach for a ride, and decided to just stop and get some pizza, than it was off to the movies to see Twilight (breaking dawn part 2) which we all thought was the best one of them all!  My husband enjoyed it which for a guy is a miracle to say the least! I draged him to everyone one of them, but to my surprise he really liked this one. Than there was Sunday and visiting the mom-in-law with football all day and the piece of resistance was my Giants win and win they did big time for sure!!!  I keep on saying that the Giants will win the Superbowl again this year, I just have that feeling!   Time will tell!  Monday is here and I feel so good about my weekend that even work will not put a tamper on it!!!  Later my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling guilty!

Pretty much feeling guilty because my life is pretty much back to normal and a lot of my fellow New Jerseyans are not even close to it!  We went first hand down the shore this past weekend for the first time, words can not even describe what we saw! The boardwalk's are all gone, a lot of beach is gone, house after house destroyed. The eeriness we felt was unbelievable, to tell you the truth. The little we saw was enough to tell us how vast and far it all was along the eastern seaboard coastline and inland too. On this thanksgiving I have a lot to be grateful for and give thanks to!  Yes my life is back to normal, and all my prayers go out to those that are not! 

Feeling good!

I am feeling back to normal with all the drama that has unfolded in the last month!  For me it feels like it is in the past and its time to move on!  The storm that blew though our state is the worse we have ever seen, it scares me to death that it could happen again! I feel for all those that want this in there past but are still dealing with all the hardship this has caused in their life's.  I listen to the news and they are saying about the climate change and how this could effect all of the east coast in the future. Being a New Jerseyan and never having to deal with this type of weather makes getting though this so much harder.  I always wonder how all those states who get the very bad hurricanes and tornado's every year deal with it over and over again!  They loose everything and built it back up just to loose it all over again!  I guess you have to do what you have to do, and only the strong will survive! My state of New Jersey is strong and we will survive and prosper once again, that is one thing I am the most sure of!

Normal, where are you!

Need to get back to normal, if that is possible.  One minute electric is on and you think great we are back to normal and than!!!   You guest it off it goes for maybe 3 hours and than back on again!  The good part of this story is it is coming back on.  I feel so bad on what everyone is going though still in there lives.  I sit here with a roof over my head with heat and electric and I am complaining about the lost of electric for a short time.  Smack me in the face please, a good one real hard and make it hurt will ya!  We are spoiled people at least that is the way I am feeling right at this moment!  Normal is almost back for us now in my area, the beaches I grow up with are gone the rides I went on as a child are no more!  My memories of my mom waiting and looking at us patiently are still there but the place where should would stand were claimed by the ocean!  So so sad, words can not even explain how I feel at this moment as a tear rolls down my eyes! Being pretty much content in my life, makes changes very very hard to accept!  But it really is the truth when they say you can not stop Mother Nature!

The Halloween that was'nt!

I was talking with my husband and said I cannot even believe there was no Halloween this year for the kids of NJ! All the towns in my area pretty much cancelled the kids walking the streets because of the fallen trees and down wires. I heard maybe this town or that town will be allowed out from 12noon till 4pm here and there! Without communication in lots of area word did not get to all! I had a lot of candy with no kids to eat it!  I really feel so bad for the kids, this year  really was the Halloween that wasn't! Who would have thought that would ever happen here!  In all my 56 yrs of life never once did I miss a Halloween until now! Instead of me eating all the candy I have given a lot away for the kids to enjoy!  No, it is not the same but there will be a next year and the year after that and after that again and again!
Kids always prevail in the end, and we as parents fill for them the most, but of course that is what parents do the best!

Not on track at all!

Today is one of those days, where I feel like I am in a fog with no way out!  10 days of cold and 2 days to thaw out is not enough. lol.   Thank you God for not letting our electric go off once again and keeping us warm through the night!  I pray for all those without and count myself very lucky and fortunate at this time! Power for those I know went down again last night but it did come back on. Trying to get back on track seems a little harder than usual in every aspect of my life, but with time for me at least things will fall into place. Not much else to say right now, all seems a dream and I wish I could wake up and all things would be good again!  I need to remember, as I am sure we all do that time does heal and we are strong people and will prevail in the end!

Not all but some!

I have to write this, some not all of the police in Rahway NJ, need a good dose on how to treat people with respect and a little concern also. My brother-in-law was on line waiting for gas at Shell gas station on St. George ave. in Rahway people overheard the person who runs the station talking to a police officer and the officer saying you have to give me $100.00 an hour to protect the area which the owner a women said really, okay I will just call city hall and the captain and tell him what you want an hour, of course he (the police officer turn around and worked for what he was really suppose to get and it was not 100.00 an hour! Come on price gauging! Than I was on a line and this older gentleman said to me another police officer again in Rahway was so nasty to him just because he was waiting on a line before the gas station was opened. He said to me I could see if I looked like some teenager with a mouth who was going to start trouble but I am a 65 yr old man in a Plymouth who just wanted gas. He was so upset for no reason at all. Now is that the way a cop should act? He said the way this officer talk to him like with complete disrespect and like he was a complete trash. Someone should tell them to just do their jobs and shut the hell up, like they think they could tell people to do!  Stress was high no doult in my mine, but if you are not causing any problems their is no need to treat a person like they are a hoodlum, that's not what wearing a badge is about!  I think a police officer should get evaluated at least every 5 years to make sure like a teacher they can still do the job! I mean really if you could treat a teacher like that why not a police officer. Think about it, some officers out there should not be even able to carry a gun if they have an anger problems at all! I understand being a police officer is very dangeous in this day and age but a good cop knows pretty much a good situation from a bad one.  In a time of crisis, people do not need cops to be the bad guys they are there to serve and protect the public not treat them like shit! My son wants to be a cop, all I said to him is being a cop is not about who you think you are its about taking pride in what you do, its a job, there is loads of crap out there, you just have to know the difference, a badge does not give you the right to step on people!  Please understand me there a loads of great cops out there, but sometimes you get a few that make people judge them all!