HAPPY FRIDAY SPEAKIES

Happy Friday Guys and Dolls:

Just stopping by for a quick visit like I usually on Friday and hoping you all have a great weekend. This weekend we celebrate “DRESS UP YOUR PET DAY” and this Saturday it is the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas. Now let JoeyZ get his two cents in on these events. First of all no pet wants to get dressed up in some goofy clown outfit or Santa suit. I also hate those dog sweaters on those little yapper type dogs. Why don’t you just put a Navy Pea Coat on them? If it’s raining buy them a London Fog trench coat. Dogs have fur that keeps them warm, if they get wet they shake it off. Can you imagine in ancient times dogs wearing caveman cloths or armor like a Roman soldier? Give a pooch a nice old soft throw rug to lie on and he is content.

Now this Miss America Pageant, when I was little it was always held in Atlantic City in September and in the Convention Center on the boardwalk. Bert Parks was the host, the girls came out in evening gowns, swim suits and displayed a little talent, like juggling or twirling something and finally answered some dumb question Bert threw out. You tried to pick out your winners, the winner was announced and good old Bert sang “Here She Comes Miss America.” Today it’s like a Las Vegas Show production, keep it simple I say. Bring it back to AC they could use the revenue.

While we are talking pageants have you ever seen the previews or watched that pageant show about those little girls trying to be little queens of beauty. The attitudes of those little girls and their parents make me want to throw up. First of all I would take those mothers and kick them in the butt for what they put those children through. As far as those little queens, take off that fancy dress, makeup and hair gel and force them to play in the mud and be the little ones that they are. Get dirty kids and then take a bath and play with some toys.

I’m finished for today, have a great weekend, watch the games and hope you teams win.

LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT

Good Morning Speakies:

A friend of mine sent me this as an e-mail and it is a beautiful story, so I thought I would share it with you this Thursday morning. Love this - I hope you do.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck..

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full..

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water..

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do ha lf of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.'

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?'

'That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the
path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.'

For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to
grace the house.'

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

I wish you all a wonderful day.

HAPPY HOLIDAY MR. AND MISS PHARMACISTS

Happy Happy Hump Day Guys and Doll:

Not much happening around here today so far, I see my readers in New Jersey and along the East coast are going through another snow storm. I really don’t miss that snow and ice one bit.

There are a couple of birthday wishes today. Born this date in 1935 “The Amazing Kreskin” and in 1944 Philly’s own Joe Frazier, you’re next Joe, you’re next. I would also like to extend “Happy Birthday” to all my Speakies celebrating theirs today.

We have a holiday to observe today and I would like to say thank you for a job well done with prompt, courteous and caring service to Leslie and Mary our Pharmacists here at Target in Central Florida. Today is “NATIONAL PHARMACIST’S DAY”, that day we honor all those pill pushers. Leslie and Mary are the sweetest and most professional pharmacists Roe and I have had, their understanding and service is impeccable. Now we’ve had some real grouches in our days of pill taking and I won’t mention what particular drug chain these peddlers of pills practiced their trade. I remember the days back in Trenton; we had a local family owned pharmacy called Episcopo’s. You would go in, drop off your prescriptions, talk to the old man he would answer any of your questions and if you wanted the pills delivered they were. Those good old days I fear are gone. I say Happy Holiday to those dedicated Pharmacists who practice the true meaning of their profession and make our lives a little easier when we are sick.

I also remember when I was little; we had two doctors the Franzoni Brothers who had their practice on the corner of Brunswick Ave. and Spruce Street. You were sick you went in no appointments they took you. I remember the many times I had a bad cold or flu, after hours, Dr. Carl Franzoni would come to the house to see me. My temperature was taken and I still can hear his famous words, “Roll over and pull your pajama pants down.” The next thing I remember was getting ready for that needle filled with make me feel better medicine making a direct hit into my butt cheeks. I bet you remember those days and those needles too.

Have a great day Speakies and take those pills if you got them.

GET YOUR MILK HERE, MILK HERE

Good Morning Speakies:

Happy Tuesday wishes to you all. Just wanted to let you readers know my Roe came home from the hospital yesterday and I wish for her a speedy recovery while resting at home. Thanks for all the get well wishes from my Guys and Dolls, especially Mack and Skip. Thanks to you all very much.

It looks like snow outside this morning those dark, grey, stormy clouds but temps are expected in the 70’s this afternoon with a cold front scheduled for this evening dropping temps into the upper 30’s. There is your weather forecast for Central Florida from Certified Weatherman JoeyZ.

Today we celebrate “MILK DAY” and I thank those cows for all the hard work they do and the dairy farmers who fill us with that Vitamin D wonder. Back in grammar school we had the choice of white milk, chocolate milk and orange drink every day. I remember paying every day for a bottle but can’t remember what the actual cost was then. Yes readers the milk was in a glass bottle with a paper cap as the bottle cover. My favorite was the chocolate milk with the orange drink running second. The white milk was my least favorite the taste always reminded me of milk of magnesia. I’m getting the shivers right now as I'm thinking of it. Those nuns really pushed that white milk they probably got a commission on the sale.

They also sold the Philadelphia style hot pretzels but believe me they were not hot, more like soft and soggy, but as a kid I loved them. Now those pretzels were the long version not the regular pretzel shaped. Memories flow back when you celebrate those odd holidays like today.

Have a great day Guys and Dolls and remember be careful out there.

DON'T START WITH ME TODAY

Good Monday Morning Guys and Doll:

Hope you all had a good weekend; it was a bad day for us Eagle fans, the big one always slips away it seems for them Boids. Better luck next year guys, you need some defensive help and choose wisely in the draft this year. I was watching the local news this morning and saw that Atlanta got about 4 inches of snow and has halted the entire city and state of Georgia. You cannot believe how many flights to Orlando have been cancelled this morning as a result of this storm system. I just checked out the weather for Trenton, NJ and it looks like you guys are expecting a snow storm starting tomorrow good luck and fair weather I hope.

It’s only the second week in January and maybe I’m getting older but things are starting to piss me off already in the New Year. First things first, guys don’t wear baseball caps in restaurants, take them off, didn’t your mom teach you any manners and secondly don’t wear them backwards or sideways, you look like something from the 1940 Dead End Kids Movies. If you think you look cool forget it, start your own trend, wear a fedora with jeans and a flannel shirt make your own fashion statement. Here’s another thing, wearing your pants half way down your ass, I wish they had an Ass Patrol that would go around and yank them down, snap a picture and post it all over the news and show your shortcomings. Here’s another one of my favorites, these so called Christian pastors who molest children, you hear it on the news down here every week, I wish I was a judge for a few days and there were no prisons just my kind of punishment.

Oh well I better calm down for now, have a great day and send me your favorite things that annoy you.

HAPPY FRIDAY SPEAKIES

Happy Friday Speakies:

Making my quick stop by to wish you all a great last work day and hoping you all have a wonderful weekend. Lots of football on this weekend as the Pro Playoffs begin. This weekend we celebrate “BUBBLE BATH DAY”, so on this grand holiday celebration I’m going to leave it to you and yours imaginations of what you want to do. Have fun; enjoy the bubbles and each other.

Hoping Roe will be home soon, I leave you with my wishes again for a great weekend.

TOOT TOOT

Happy Thursday Guys and Dolls:

Guess what today is? It is “NATIONAL BEAN DAY.” Those lovely little beans that give you gas all day long, but forget the gas today and enjoy the beans. Let’s remember that little song we all knew and sang as kids:

“BEANS, BEANS THE MUSICAL FRUIT,
THE MORE YOU EAT THE MORE YOU TOOT.”

Or this one that I remember so well and sang so many times each time bringing a smile to my young face.

“JOEY ATE THE BEANS
AND THE BEANS EXPLODED,
50 YARD DASH TO THE TOILET SEAT,
DIARRHEA, POOP, POOP, DIARRHEA.”

Its fun remembering things you sang and did as a kid. Let me think of the kind of beans I like to eat. Number one has to be Pork and Beans, great with dogs and burgers, Sloppy Joes, Mac and Cheese. Pork and Beans is a number one fusion bean. Kidney beans great in chili. Garbanzo beans love those in salads or just plain out of the can. Lima beans great buttery taste put in a little fried bacon and serve them as a side dish. Split peas great for pea soup with carrots, ham and potatoes, my Mother use to make a great pea soup. Here is a little tidbit for you, did you know Black beans are considered to be one of the Top Ten Brain Foods. So get those kids started eating beans and on the highway to Smartsville.

So have a great day, eat those beans and give a toot and a big hoot. See you Speakies later.

DEDICATED TO MY FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS

Happy Hump Day Speakies:

Well another Hump Day is upon us and I hope the work day flies by for all of you today. It’s a pretty boring day here in Central Florida, the skies are partly cloudy and the temperatures should reach the mid 70’s today. This time of the year really sucks for time off. Most of us will have one holiday in January, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, some may have President’s Day in February but after that the next holiday is Memorial Day in May. That is a long time between holidays for us working Speakies.

I did locate a holiday for us to celebrate today, “NATIONAL BIRD DAY.” A day we recognize and honor our fine little feathered friends. I think most of those birds are here in Florida enjoying the warmer weather and dropping their loads on all the cars around. Speaking of birds, I love that window cleaning commercial with those two crows laughing at that idiot husband who walks into the patio door because it’s so clean. We also have that great movie “THE BIRDS” placing fear in that small California town by attacking anyone who walks, crawls or steps out into the open.

Speaking of birds, I want to wish my Eagles good luck on Sunday against them Cheese Head Packers. GO BOOOOOOOOOOOID'S. Well I’m going to say goodbye for now, have a great day and like I said I will try to keep in touch as much as I can this week.

DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE

Happy Tuesday Speakies:

Hoping you all had a pleasant evening and are ready to begin a new day. It’s cloudy and dreary here in Central Florida but highs are expected to be near 70 today with lows in the upper 40’s. Seems most of the tourists are departing except the visitors from Europe who constantly visit the area.

Today we celebrate the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton the famed English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, alchemist and theologian. He is considered one of the most influential people in human history. In his writings Newton described universal gravitation and the laws of motion. He also according to legend got whacked in the head with an apple sitting under a tree which started him wondering about the law of gravity. Happy Birthday Sir Isaac.

Stopped at the hospital after work last night and paid Roe a visit, she is in good spirits but still fighting that infection but with the care she is receiving and the medication, hoping she will be getting stronger soon. For those who read her Creative Liberties Blog, she says hello to all her readers and is still posting a little bit. My girl has great faith and strength and will not quit doing her thing. Love you Babe.

Have a great day Guys and Dolls and remember be careful out there.

CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRIES JOEYZ SAYS

Speakies:

Welcome to the New Year and another work week begins. Hoping you all had a great weekend along with a grand New Year’s Eve and Day celebration. Kind of quite around JoeyZ’s house, Roe is in the hospital so not much celebrating done at home, I hoping she will be home soon but that’s up to the doctors in charge.

We have an interesting holiday today, “NATIONAL CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRY DAY.” I still have a box of Cella’s sitting in my refrigerator. They are my favorite, served cold of course. So if you have any, please pick one out that package and enjoy that chocolate covered cherry today.

It’s going to be a hectic time for me while Roe is in the hospital and my writing might not appear every day, but keep checking the site, I love having my Guys and Dolls stopping by. Have a great day and evening.