My heart and positive thoughts right now are going out to Mary, a lady who I work with and have considered a friend over the past 6 years. It was brought to our attention first thing this morning that she has been in turmoil and experiencing the worst thing imaginable for a parent. Both her sons have been missing since yesterday afternoon.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_111708_news_missing_brothers.1bfee1020.html

INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — Authorities searched all night Sunday and into Monday morning for two brothers who went missing while fishing Sunday along the Willamette River in Independence.

Family members had hoped someone would call the Polk County Sheriff’s Office with word that they had seen Alvin Troub, 20, and his eight-year-old brother, Michael Runyon. But so far — nothing.

Michael has autism and would be very scared, his mother, Mary Troub told KGW. Her two sons were both wearing dark-colored hoodie sweatshirts and jeans, and both fish off the shore into the Willamette “all the time,” she said.

A staging area was set up at the north end of Riverview Park in Independence.

Around 2pm Sunday, Troub and his brother, Michael was dropped off by their grandfather to go fishing. When he returned two hours later as planned to pick up the two young men, they were nowhere to be found.

 Slideshow: Photos of brothers

Family members quickly reported them missing.

Fishing poles and equipment used by the young men were located, but no signs of them. Family members said that was very odd.

“Alvin takes really good care of his fishing poles. I don’t know what’s going on,” said Laurie Runyon, aunt to both boys.

Michael has autism. His older brother always takes care of him. “The two make a good team,” Runyon said.

Family members hoped someone fishing in the area Sunday saw something and can help them find the two young men.

My weekend was two days success, two days being lost in a video game. I hope to get a PS3 before GoW 3 comes out. I’m putting it up there with my love for the TR game play. BUT on to the horrendous morning- some time corrections I had e-mailed last Wednesday to the person in charge of  time cards while I was out didn’t make it into the time sheet and no one noticed that I worked 80 hrs but my time sheet only showed 67! It took all morning to get it straightened out, and just when I thought it was, I find out that it didn’t make on the upcoming paycheck… so a check is to be cut and Fed-Ex’ed to me. EEK! I hope nothing goes wrong and they don’t miscalculate my student loan garnishment or take out too much tax.

I think that was the only bad thing about the day. On the good side, I measured myself when I got home and I’ve lost a total of 2″ off my waist and another 2″ off my hips. I feel another 2 wks and I’ll be back in top shape (for me and easy to maintain), and then I’ll have to come out with different reasons for still being single after all these years. I’m eating healthy, 3.5 months no smoking, working out- I’m trying to take up swearing.

I’ve really nothing else to add. There’s been mild drama with the upcoming holiday, but I *think* and hope it’s all under control now. I went from bent on just taking Jonathon out and celebrating his birthday which is on Thanksgiving this year… to now… I want to do both have just Jonathon time for his birthday and get family down to Ash’s to have a TG dinner.

I think planning and preparations are good and needed on my end. I need to force myself to get busy with things like that. Last night was having crocodile tears over a falling out over the holiday plans- when it just hit me like a ton of bricks that I’m spending an 8th yr of not having anyone during the holidays. Being a single parents… yes it’s rewarding, and you aren’t technically alone, but no one understands how lonely it really can feel, especially when you’re surrounded by couples during the holidays. It SUCKS and I don’t look forward to it, but it is what it is. It feels petty and human and horrible, but sometimes I just would rather NOT be around couples, sometimes I don’t want reminders that I haven’t been in a serious relationship since Clinton was in office… I try not to let it get to me, but it happens. Damn the whole not being emotionally jaded. GRRRR!

Enough about that in this post! I got over my hump of craving a smoke, this morning was the toughest in awhile when I feared not getting the paycheck situation taken care of.  It all goes back to the Russian Reality TV Show. I think they’re doing a promotional contest: “Who ever can come up with the situation to make Dawn light up will win a potato” Well, I still haven’t lit up, so I’m afraid to find out what’s next.

I put the year in there to show that this film was created in modern times.

**this blog was written during the film viewing**

I don’t believe the movie is even half over and already the scientific flaws has me clawing at my sofa… or wanting to if it wouldn’t harm the fabric.

Even if this movie was created as a non B movie in the 50′s they would still have the basic intellect to COVER YOUR FREAKING FACES!

Back to the movie at hand. The movie that is bad… really really bad and flawed on nearly every level imaginable so far. HOW COME NO ONE IS COVERING THEIR NOSE/MOUTHS when this is an airborne threat???

Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman
I don’t know why I didn’t pay attention to the premise of this film before… probably because the only information I received was along the lines of: SYNOPSIS
Unpopular superhero Hancock saves the life of a PR executive who attempts to salvage his public image. <-Wow that’s going to get the people who would appreciate this film out to view it. *sarcasm* I feel that a fair share of people will find it worth watching who may have otherwise passed it by.

I was interested in this film because it looked kind of funny and interesting, but the actual story is a lot better than I had imagined. Sadly it only begins right before it ends and I hope to see a Hancock 2.

They promoted this film incorrectly which prompted a lot of critics to critique it incorrectly.

In order to make this a great film, the writers and director should have pulled out pieces in the beginning of the story so that the ending could fill the areas that should brought mystery and interest to the viewer. If you want to know what I’m referring to, see the movie.

It played off much like Pan’s Labyrinth in the sense that it has 3 very distinct stories *only the stories in this film center around one person, the main character*- and that one person has no idea what’s going on.

Is it just me or has anyone else suspected that the talented writers in the entertainment industry were snuffed out and replaced by their whiny, annoying cousins? It’s already November and there’s not one show I’m attached to. I’m a child who was raised by the TV damn it, I need some decent programming!

They killed everyone during the writers strike, didn’t they? All the shows I had enjoyed last year… gone. Finis. It’s been down hill since the resurrection in May (for those who decided to finish out the year).

30 Rock is the only show I continue to enjoy and it’s only had two episodes this season. When I look forward to the next Hannah Montana, iCarly and Suite Life on Deck- like I have been something has seriously gone wrong in Hollywood. I actually tuned in to watch iCarly: iGo to Japan on Saturday night, and iliked it.

For those who do not have premium cable channels (like me) is there ANYTHING decent on television??? Only those with good taste need reply.

It’s really true what they say… you know, that stuff about your home reflecting how you feel. A cluttered home =’s a cluttered mind etc. My breathing is still off (sort of like when I first quit smoking)- It looks like my lung capacity has expanded so that’s probably what I’m feeling. With the diet change (I slipped last night by eating a bag of low fat kettle corn- I’m so bad), but I’ve thrown out a ton of stuff and did a ton of cleaning over the past 2 days.

I’ve made my room more friendly to me, I’ve cleaned out my fridge/freezer/cupboards when I realized that it’s been awhile since I’ve done that. I was even on all fours scrubbing the floors and all surfaces and I still have a ton of energy. I also did my grocery shopping in record time as well.

Dinner is cooking, I’m playing GoW and I want to run around the block!

I NEED TO SIGN UP FOR A MEGATHALON! (is there even such a thing?) Will my energy subside? Will my lungs and body be on the same page again? How long will this last????

2.5 more days of my weekend to go!

This had me giggling Poor little technologically impaired granny.

Friday pretty much had me aching for the weekend. On my way to work a deer ran out in front of my car and I had to tap the brakes, swurve to avoid hitting it- and then I hit myself when I realized “I could have gotten a new car or at least forced it into a shop where I could get the Theft System/Battery cable looked at!”

The weekend finally did hit and I’m very happy. I’m also happy to be able to write that I lost five pounds and an inch off my waist and an inch off my hips. I’ve seriously added wine to my list of ‘No Mas’<- it makes me sleep eat. Thankfully my fridge is stocked with snow peas and raw spinach.

I’m off to sip my coffee and play God of War. I’m stuck on a stupid part at the START (near the beginning at least). I have to kick/push a crate across the deck of a ship while arrows are being shot at me. You’d think “No big deal.” Right? I mean who doesn’t typically dodge arrows being thrown at you while pushing a crate regardless of where you are? The catch on this game is that the crate keeps getting destroyed by the arrows! I’ll make it 3/4 of the way there and then it’s destroyed! I’m never getting up to where I need to go

Has anyone played this game? Can anyone help me get the stupid crate across the deck? I push- I kick, I mix it up and nothing works (now that I wrote this I’ll probably make it through when I turn on the game).

Truth be told that many years ago I had eating disorders and as a part of my recovery I had to do away scales so I wouldn’t obsess and wind up basically eating a head of lettuce a month. It wasn’t difficult to assess my weight (healthy, too skinny or getting a little chunky there…) because I based it all on my clothing size. If in doubt I’d go by inches.

Since I’ve recently gotten serious about losing weight (I wanted to quit smoking first- which I did 3 months ago). Well last week I decided to take losing weight to a serious level. Although my clothing size hasn’t changed drastically (which felt odd…) my body felt wrong, looked wrong and I didn’t understand why. I took out tape measurer and measured myself with shocking results. For the clothing size, I was bigger than I should have been. Well apparently they changed the sizes to enable the weight gain of America and screwed me up!

I went out today and I bought a scale so I could weigh myself (of course) and alter the weight/inches associated with various sizes. So back in the day when I was a size 0 I guess it’d be a -6 now because the old size 6′s from the days of yore are now a size 0, a size 9 is a size 6 etc. It’s pretty f’ed up.

SO- fridge stocked with veggies, a scale in the kitchen and the tape measurer dusted off… it’s time to get down to business and shed these pounds that snuck up on me making me realize I’m worse than I thought!

A society that has eating disorders at an all time high be it obesity or anorexia, how the f’ are we supposed to be at a healthy medium if they screw up our sizes? So basically if you’re a size 6 and you want to keep yourself a size 6 but you don’t go by scales or measuring when you’re maintaining a size… you go to buy a new item that’s a size 6 but it’s too loose, you think “Great, I’m losing weight- I can afford to eat a little more to keep my size 6… ” Not knowing that they’re slowly moving you up the scales… the next thing you know you pull out a size 6 outfit that’s in your closet, something you bought a few years ago but it won’t fit at all because although it was a size 6 a few years ago, the new standards has the size 6 a size 2.

I’m miffed. I know they changed things, but I didn’t realize how much!