This is a diary of the life and times of the West Coast people viewed by a Southern Girl. So far the landscape is full of vast, endless huge ant hills or maybe dinosaur dung? It could have been left by Dino! Maybe not, but we had fun with it. All of a sudden, a big pile of rocks would appear out of nowhere! How in the world did they get here? It looks like a huge tractor pushed them into the piles. Can you say, Alien? I can see now, this trip is going to be a Hoot!
We haven't had any contact with people yet, but I'm also getting hungry! I eat like a baby, every three hours or so whether I need it or not. Yes, I'm looking for something to eat besides Mexican! Come on, this is still America! I think! Maybe not! Oh look, it's a McDonald's! At least I can get chicken, my stomach thanks you! It's only 108 outside, so I'm sitting in the car while my love gets the food so my beautiful roses stay cool. I know I forgot to tell you about the roses. They were sent to me by my daughter for my birthday and they are beautiful. My honey didn't want to leave them at home, so they came on the trip with me.
Wow, a lady is sitting at a table on her computer in McDonald's. Is life that serious or stressful that it requires a laptop and a phone while eating lunch? Pray for the satellite to work or her life is toast! Would she be able to live without the flat box to communicate? Let's hope so. I'm wondering if my love has encountered any English while ordering my food? His patience is not very long neither is his tolerance for businesses not to have someone who could communicate in understandable English. If his eyebrows are up, I'll know the answer! His eyebrows weren't up but he was not disappointed in the language barrier. He had to say the order three times and it still came out wrong. Maybe, she couldn't understand Southern! However, not all was lost. He found a little humor in replying, clean up on aisle one, when he knocked over his large drink. This was by accident, I might add! I'm glad I was in the car!
Now that lunch is over, can you say potty break and change drivers! My turn! I'm so comfortable behind the wheel that I've actually considered a career that included driving somehow. A constant vacation, that's it. I could travel the country and rate hotels and the services provided! I would be willing to sacrifice my job to be on a vacation all the time! No problem! Nice thought, but my dream is over now.
Our TomTom, which we call Shirley, talks to me like my God is talking to me. I couldn't live without either! Stay In The Left Lane! Go Straight On! Turn Around When Possible and Right Turn in one Mile! She talks all the time and gets ticked whenever we stop for something. We just say, hang on Shirley we'll get on the right track in a minute. Shirley will be a blessing in more ways than one on this trip!
After finding tons of sightseeing tours and locations we had our first choice, The USS Midway Museum! We walked all over that aircraft carrier while listening to an audio tour through head phones. You just type in the number of your location and the story begins. I thought about all the young men and women who served their time aboard her, doing hard jobs and making hard choices for us to be free. God Bless each and every one of them! It was just awesome! Afterwards, we found a restaurant called, The Boat House. Our meals were fabulous! What a way to end the day!
I was told by people, you have to visit the Hotel Del Coronado and the Coronado Beach. It's old and has character and has a very interesting story. I like old and I really enjoyed walking all over the hotel, very pretty, very busy and very expensive! Two days later we came back to the Island and rode our bikes all around the water, the sailboats and the Navy Base. The sights were wonderful and the weather was perfect! My love had his own idea the day before, The Del Mar Race Track! That was OK with me because we love going to the horse races. We've been to a few on the East Coast and you can't ever tell what might happen, like the jockey falling off the horse during the race! Our horse Won but had no Rider! Which means, we Lost!
We are not early risers anymore, done that, over that. We like to stay up late and sleep late, that way you miss all the rush hour traffic! At least, that's what we tell people. So, for us to leave the room to have breakfast before noon is a miracle! Mornings consisted of coffee and a muffin at the local gas station!
I had fun with a few signs out there. One sign read, A Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was located on a highway under construction. I wanted a flag from the flag lady but nobody was working on a Friday! I figured we paid for that since I'm a tax payer so I wanted a flag for my collection. Next came the Easy Life Furniture Store sign! I had two thoughts on this one, was it maybe outdoor furniture or was it for the illegals coming into Ca.? Hey, I can wonder, can't I? Plus, I'm almost positive that a car full of illegals was beside me going on a bypass! They looked suspicious! We followed each other for quite awhile and then he turned off. Oh, then we saw a big sign, Tattoo Expo! You have got to be kidding me, a whole Expo just for Tattoos! I think I'll have to miss that one, maybe next time.
Besides the flowers, my family went together to buy me a Kindle! I had great fun playing my games on it every single night and I'll be downloading books real soon. On the drive out, I kept asking my love, have we been here before? He always replied, No. My memories are a little confused or I'm confused. I've had so many memories that I think they are just blending together! I told him, it will take both of us to get through the rest of our lives! We'll probably need a check list every morning just to get started, but we aren't there yet, so no worries! I begged Shirley to please find me a Red Lobster! She came through again, only 10 minutes away! Thanks, Shirley!
We visited The Old Town Historic District and we even made it to the last house in the USA, which was 4 sale. We stood on the beach and to the left Navy Helicopters were doing maneuvers and to the right we could see Mexico! We love anything that deals with our military and watching any aircraft in flight is a bonus!
The service and the people at our hotel could not have been nicer. The rooms were very pretty and the bed was very comfortable and the food wasn't bad either! We would stay there again in a New York Minute! And it didn't hurt that I had decorated the room with my flowers!
So, I conclude that Southern Hospitality also exist and was equalled by our Western Friends! It was sad but we had to leave. I'm still looking for the bag of $20's on the side of the road! I guess I'll have to start saying the bag of $100's since things cost so much more now. We plugged Shirley in and she was so happy to tell us Where to Go! Just like so many other people in the world, but all we have to do is unplug her! Travel this beautiful country of ours, go East to West or North To South, just Go and stay safe. We'll see you on the flip side and always say your prayers!
The Commoner
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Role of the Female
What is a woman's role in our society? Joel Osteen says, to Honor your wife will make God smile upon you with His blessings! To Honor your mother and father is a good thing. But, mother wasn't just added in to go along with the father part! Mother Mary was sacred because she was the mother of Jesus.
As we have our babies, we don't plan to have a Genghis Khan! Most of us hope and pray our children will be more like the baby Jesus instead. I feel about 3/4ths of the time the amount of love, understanding and guidance we give our children is the deciding factor that shapes and molds them to be the future adult, one which is either productive or one who is a slacker in life!
Now back to the cultures, look at the actual religions of the world that downgrade females and treat them as property where they have no rights, no say and no life! That's not what God intended for his creation as a woman. Muslin women are treated on the same level as dogs, covered as they are unsightly and never equal to a man! They are just used as a vessel to have a male heir and degraded for every female baby born, even though the sex of a child is determined by the male in this equation!
When the religions of the world condone and encourage this absurd behavior, the female situation will never improve! If you consider all religions are run by the male species, it happens to be their rules and beliefs on paper, doesn't it?
The customs, family traditions, respect, love and the dynamics of the family dictates the treatment of the women or wife, husband and the children. Society as a whole has gone down the tubes because of the acts of violence displayed between the members of the family and the use of obscene language in the household! Personal control is out the window! Rules and respect are also out the window!
I feel as a child growing up in the 50's life was like the Beaver Family! A healthy fear of our parents creates respect and a fear of God is the balancing second control of life! People don't go to church like in the past so they don't have that fear of God. Children don't have enough rules and control to create respect of parents and the healthy fear that's needed. So many people I'm in contact with have no fear or morals. They just fear the government check will be late.
Societies all over the world want to live in the U.S.A. But, once here some want to continue the same obscure beliefs and control they had in their own countries. The same bad habits and behaviors just continue on! So, why come to America? It is to dominate our big, bold land of ours, to deny us our freedoms and to deny the freedoms to women which they despise! Freedom of religion is just that, you worship your way and I worship my way! But, you can't leave my Sacred Freedoms Alone! You know, that's what separates man from the animals! What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours! Animals can't tell the difference but humans can, we have a mind that tells us the difference between right and wrong. As people, we leave the other person's things alone because its called stealing! Stealing of property or stealing of rights or stealing of dignity, it's all stealing and robbing us of our soul. I know we haven't ventured too far since man was a barbarian! The man would just drag his woman home to the cave but, man's job is to continue to grow and grow and shape humanity toward the good scale and not go backwards!
I'm the youngest, a special place to be, of three children and the only girl. I was so blessed because my parents were hard workers and wonderful people. The time and place in life was perfect to be growing up. No violence was ever witnessed by me or my brothers and no cussing to speak of, was said. How many families can say that today? Hardy any I'm sure! We have come to accept bad behavior and to condone it, sometimes to even welcome it's display! People, we have to get a grip! We need to get a grip on our life and on our emotions! Yes, I know I blow a blood vessel after hearing a liberal talk for only two seconds! I didn't say I was perfect! But, my views are important and righteous and as a woman I have the right to voice them! I'm not going to be that muslin woman having no opinion, no rights and no will of survival! It won't happen in our life time because there are too many baby boomers to resist such an Ungodly take over! I believe that's our role in the present and future is to maintain and return all our Freedoms to the 50's Era!
I am the lucky one, my life has been filled with respect, rules and love living that simple life. I gave my children the same values and I expect them to pass this same value system to their children. Memories of my childhood are drive-in movies in a pickup truck, parked backwards so we could sit in chairs eating Mama's homemade donuts, life was good! Saturday night's we watched the Grand Ole Opry snapping green beans or peeling butter beans at the kitchen table for Sunday lunch. The big Sunday lunch consisted of either Southern Fried Chicken or a Roast in the oven after Church. A little religion and a lot of good food makes for a happy family and it made Sunday's so special!
We didn't have a lot of money but I didn't notice. Love doesn't require money. My Mom use to say, Soap is cheap. We had a bath every single night and lots of food, a big yard and a big garden to provide. Life was good! I have had the privilege of being a Daughter, a Woman, a Wife, a Mother and An American! Nowhere else on this green planet would I want to be born to live a fulfilled life but Here!
The power of Thought, the power of Reason and The Consequence of Choice makes life Worth living! Power to the Female! May She never be held down, but held up to be the Mother of Nations!
The Commoner
As we have our babies, we don't plan to have a Genghis Khan! Most of us hope and pray our children will be more like the baby Jesus instead. I feel about 3/4ths of the time the amount of love, understanding and guidance we give our children is the deciding factor that shapes and molds them to be the future adult, one which is either productive or one who is a slacker in life!
Now back to the cultures, look at the actual religions of the world that downgrade females and treat them as property where they have no rights, no say and no life! That's not what God intended for his creation as a woman. Muslin women are treated on the same level as dogs, covered as they are unsightly and never equal to a man! They are just used as a vessel to have a male heir and degraded for every female baby born, even though the sex of a child is determined by the male in this equation!
When the religions of the world condone and encourage this absurd behavior, the female situation will never improve! If you consider all religions are run by the male species, it happens to be their rules and beliefs on paper, doesn't it?
The customs, family traditions, respect, love and the dynamics of the family dictates the treatment of the women or wife, husband and the children. Society as a whole has gone down the tubes because of the acts of violence displayed between the members of the family and the use of obscene language in the household! Personal control is out the window! Rules and respect are also out the window!
I feel as a child growing up in the 50's life was like the Beaver Family! A healthy fear of our parents creates respect and a fear of God is the balancing second control of life! People don't go to church like in the past so they don't have that fear of God. Children don't have enough rules and control to create respect of parents and the healthy fear that's needed. So many people I'm in contact with have no fear or morals. They just fear the government check will be late.
Societies all over the world want to live in the U.S.A. But, once here some want to continue the same obscure beliefs and control they had in their own countries. The same bad habits and behaviors just continue on! So, why come to America? It is to dominate our big, bold land of ours, to deny us our freedoms and to deny the freedoms to women which they despise! Freedom of religion is just that, you worship your way and I worship my way! But, you can't leave my Sacred Freedoms Alone! You know, that's what separates man from the animals! What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours! Animals can't tell the difference but humans can, we have a mind that tells us the difference between right and wrong. As people, we leave the other person's things alone because its called stealing! Stealing of property or stealing of rights or stealing of dignity, it's all stealing and robbing us of our soul. I know we haven't ventured too far since man was a barbarian! The man would just drag his woman home to the cave but, man's job is to continue to grow and grow and shape humanity toward the good scale and not go backwards!
I'm the youngest, a special place to be, of three children and the only girl. I was so blessed because my parents were hard workers and wonderful people. The time and place in life was perfect to be growing up. No violence was ever witnessed by me or my brothers and no cussing to speak of, was said. How many families can say that today? Hardy any I'm sure! We have come to accept bad behavior and to condone it, sometimes to even welcome it's display! People, we have to get a grip! We need to get a grip on our life and on our emotions! Yes, I know I blow a blood vessel after hearing a liberal talk for only two seconds! I didn't say I was perfect! But, my views are important and righteous and as a woman I have the right to voice them! I'm not going to be that muslin woman having no opinion, no rights and no will of survival! It won't happen in our life time because there are too many baby boomers to resist such an Ungodly take over! I believe that's our role in the present and future is to maintain and return all our Freedoms to the 50's Era!
I am the lucky one, my life has been filled with respect, rules and love living that simple life. I gave my children the same values and I expect them to pass this same value system to their children. Memories of my childhood are drive-in movies in a pickup truck, parked backwards so we could sit in chairs eating Mama's homemade donuts, life was good! Saturday night's we watched the Grand Ole Opry snapping green beans or peeling butter beans at the kitchen table for Sunday lunch. The big Sunday lunch consisted of either Southern Fried Chicken or a Roast in the oven after Church. A little religion and a lot of good food makes for a happy family and it made Sunday's so special!
We didn't have a lot of money but I didn't notice. Love doesn't require money. My Mom use to say, Soap is cheap. We had a bath every single night and lots of food, a big yard and a big garden to provide. Life was good! I have had the privilege of being a Daughter, a Woman, a Wife, a Mother and An American! Nowhere else on this green planet would I want to be born to live a fulfilled life but Here!
The power of Thought, the power of Reason and The Consequence of Choice makes life Worth living! Power to the Female! May She never be held down, but held up to be the Mother of Nations!
The Commoner
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