Tina Langley - one woman's journal

Santana Old and New

Tina — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:19:30 +0000

I love Santana, the old and the new. YouTube.com makes it so easy to find all of his music.

Maria Maria is one of my favorites, but they are all good as far as I’m concerned. Enjoy this one for now.

And of course Black Magic Woman is a classic

Smooth was a good one that he did with Rob Thomas. I can only hope that he keeps them coming for many years to come.

Giddy Up Go Girl

Tina — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:42:26 +0000

Coming from a family of horse lovers I really love the idea of the Habitat for Horses site that I just recently found online. Check out this video on the habitatforhorses.org website.

My 11 year old niece is interested in starting in on some horseback riding lessons over the summer so I have started to look around for some items she will need in order to get started, like some footwear for riding horses in case a horse stomps on her foot and of course she will need to buy breeches to wear in order to protect her legs as well. Too many times I got off a horse and couldn’t walk for days due to not wearing the right clothing that you are supposed to wear. Riding horses isn’t cheap, there is a lot involved, but I’m willing to help as much as I can, in fact I think I have some stuff down in the basement that she might be able to use as well. I just hope they are all dry rotted from age, it’s been a while, sigh……

I Hate Chainmail Emails!

Tina — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:51:29 +0000

Don’t you just hate it when you give out your email address to someone, hoping that they will use it with some commonsense and only contact you when they really need to communicate with you and then all you ever get from them is those stupid “chain” letter emails? I find that to be a constant problem, and I really hate having to send those people polite replies asking them to not do that!

I like to think I am a nice person; I know I’m a busy person, and I HATE getting those kinds of emails “forward this to 8 of your closest friends within five minutes or something bad will happen to you.” I don’t forward it, I reply back to it and then delete it. I don’t know anyone who likes getting those kinds of emails, and it surprises me how many people are so superstitious that they are afraid to “break the chain” by deleting the email.

Shoes, Shoes and More Shoes, Please

Tina — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:16:26 +0000

I have always been a shoe freak. I used to drive my parents crazy with all the money that I spent on shoes and all of the shoes that I would come home with whenever I could. My closet was seriously over flowing with womens shoes and boots by the time I was ready to leave after graduating high school and it took over 5 moving boxes to pack them all up and take along.

Now that you can buy womens and men’s shoes over the Internet it has made it much easier to collect even more shoes than ever and I can’t imagine how many boxes it would take these days to pack them all up and move. Hope I don’t have to find out any time soon, just the thought of moving gives me a stomach ache. Way too much work involved in all that it takes to relocate with all the stuff (not just the shoes mind you) that I’ve collected through out the years.

They’re Everywhere!

Tina — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:47:22 +0000

This morning it seems as if all of the dandelions sprung up out of nowhere! Just yesterday all I could see was green lawn, and today I see a rolling sea of yellow dandelion blossoms! I understand that these plants are edible, I really don’t want to see them living so heartily in my lawn and invading my garden! Did you know that dandelions were brought over to America from England by the settlers? They brought them over for their bees to make honey! They were afraid that there wouldn’t be any flowers over here for their honey bees!

The Skin Care History Site

Tina — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:41:17 +0000

It is so important to keep your skin in the best possible condition for so many reasons. This infographic is really interesting and the site that I found it at http://www.tanda.com is a really great site with some good quality information that I though folks would find not only interesting but educational as well.

I would also encourage my readers that do visit this recommended site to please click and vote on their home page to end bullying. With each vote Tanda will donate $1 to help put an end to this bullying issue that effects so many people, of all ages all over the world.

Sitting and Waiting

Tina — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:29:00 +0000

Here I sit waiting for the windshield repair man to arrive to replace my broken windshield that prevented me from having my car pass the State Inspection. I had to take the day off of work to have this done and I am a bit irked that he is all ready 45 minutes late. It’s rainy and chilly outside, go figure, it’s been beautiful weather for over a month now and the first time I take a day off it ends up being crappy.

I’m just not a happy camper today.

Sister’s move

Tina — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:06:47 +0000

Guest post by Gerard Mcdaniel

When my sister moved to New York, I was so excited to have her nearby. We have not lived close to each other in a long time. Even though we are sisters, we grew up being the best of friends. I feel sorry for people that do not have any siblings. You miss out on so much if you don’t have someone to share everything with. And after you lose your parents, it is always good to have someone that can remember the good old days when you were growing up. My sister’s house is only a few miles from mine. When she was moving in she needed to save as much money as possible because she lives on a limited income. I told her to go to NY natural gas to find a good deal on her natural gas. These days everyone has to try to save as much money as they can on all expenses. Then I had to show my sister the best places to shop for groceries, the best mall to go to for buying clothes, and a lot of other places. I want to help her as much as I can so she will be happy living here. We have spent a lot of time apart, and I don’t want her to ever move again.

Gas prices

Tina — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:56:45 +0000

People keep saying that the price of gasoline will go over $5.00 a gallon this summer. If that is what really happens, I am concerned that a lot of small businesses that depend on the tourist industry are going to have a really difficult time keeping their businesses open. From what I understand, the reason for the increasing prices of gasoline is because of the greedy speculators trading stocks on Wall Street, and really has nothing to do with the real cost of oil. This infuriates me, and I really wish that there was something that could be done legally to stop that from happening. There just are not enough homeless shelters to house the homeless now, and if this keeps up we are going to find ourselves in serious trouble nationwide.

I am hoping that maybe businesses will adapt to the situation by letting their employees work four ten-hour days a week so that they will not have to commute five days a week. In order to do that, however, the day care providers need to be willing to extend their hours. I feel really bad for the people in rural areas where services like that are hard to find.

Vanilla milk shake was just nasty

Tina — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:49:11 +0000

Last night my hubby and I went through the Wendy’s drive through to pick up some food to bring home for supper. I ordered one of the apple and pecan chicken salads (which is my favorite) and my hubby ordered a chicken sandwich and a vanilla milk shake. I also ordered one of those baby Frosty drinks that you can get for free if you bought the customer loyalty key tag at the end of last year.

Driving home my husband offered me a taste of his vanilla shake, telling me to get ready for a “sugar rush.” Well, normally I am a big fan of vanilla milk shakes, but let me tell you this milk shake was really nasty! I don’t know what they had done wrong, but it was so awful that I started to gag! My hubby thought it was really funny that I disliked it so much, and said that when we got home he was going to have to dilute it with a lot of milk. I think that the next time I order a vanilla milk shake there I will taste it before I leave! I would have gone back to the counter and told them it was nasty and to give me something different!