Amy Currioman

Thanks to Lemuel Craft

Everyone has left the house in a hurry in the morning on the way to work. You are running to catch the train or jump in the car to sit in traffic and you are in such a hurry that you forget to turn something off at home. You have to turn around and go all the way back just to have the peace of mind that you did in fact turn off the coffee pot this morning on the rush out the door. If you are anything like me when you get back to the house the thing you were worried about was already turned off. One thing that you don’t have to worry about turning off or on when you leave the house is your wireless home security system. You can run out the door without setting it and then set it from your phone once you are in the car or train or bus or whatever your mode of transportation. This is quite possibly the coolest part of having ADT is being able to control it from my smart phone.

My sister was telling me that she wants to take clogging lessons and wants me to go with her. I had never heard of clogging before, so I looked it up on YouTube. It is a type of dance that is similar to what I call “Riverdance.” To be honest, I didn’t know what to think about taking classes. We found out that there was a day-long workshop going on in Haymarket yesterday, so I agreed to go and watch.

It looked like it was a lot of fun, but let me tell you this, I don’t know if my poor body would be able to take it! I do agree that it would be great exercise and probably would lead to some much needed weight loss, so I agreed to take a few classes with her. I hope it doesn’t kill me!

When Gina sent her son Tim off to school last fall I’m sure that the furthest thing in her mind was that she would be needing a california criminal lawyer before the school year was up. Tim has always been a clean-cut, soft-spoken young man who has never been in trouble in his life. Until last week. Gina got the dreaded call “Mom, I’m in jail. I’m in trouble.”

Gina hasn’t filled me in on all of the details, but from what I understand Tim was the unwitting driver of a getaway car when some of his school chums decided to rob a convenience store. Exactly HOW someone can be the unwitting driver of a getaway car is beyond my understanding, but that is their story and they are sticking to it. So now Gina has to come up with the money to hire a los angeles criminal defense lawyer to keep Tim from going to prison.

I told Gina that I’d help her try to find cheap airfare for her to be able to fly out there if she decides that is what she wants to do, but I don’t know if she is going to be able to afford the airfare and a lawyer.

Somehow I suspect that when that is all over with that maybe Tim won’t be going to school out there anymore. It’s a real mess.

Well, I did not get much sleep last night! I woke up around 1am, hearing a fluttering noise above my head! It was a bat! I totally freaked out, turned on all of the lights and tried to find it to get it out of the house. Of course, just my luck, I couldn’t find the durn thing at all. Once the lights came on, the little creep hid somewhere. So, I kept all of the lights on the rest of the night, and didn’t sleep a wink! I may never turn the lights off at night again!

I think that seat belts save lives. I know a lot of people would disagree with me, and a lot of people hate them, but I have always thought seat belts were a very good safety tool that should be used. When the state passed the mandatory seat belt law, I thought that was a good idea, but was disappointed when they said that it would not be a primary law.

They could only ticket you for not wearing it if you were pulled over for another reason. Now they’ve changed that, they CAN pull you over simply for not wearing it and give you a ticket. I think that is a good thing, and I hope that gets more people to wear seat belts.