Entry for May 14, 2007

See a photo of me above. This was taken at VFW, Dad's veteran club, Sat night, 5/12/07.

Thank goodness, the smoky air is gone since last week. I don't smell bad anymore. I smell a fresh air when I opened the door few times today. Great. I am hoping it won't be coming back but I heard a wildfire had been spotted again in the south of our county. The lightning did it yesterday.
Last Sat night, I went to a VFW party in Daytona Beach. My Dad invited me there. The food is good. Smelling cigarettes everywhere made me uncomfortable. Yuck! I wanted to go outside for a fresh air but Dad said the dinner party would start in 10 minutes. Okay. I can't wait to get out of there but I have had to be patient. And then we moved to another room in that building. A loud music bothered Dad. He complained. Dad told a man to turn the music down. He can't stand it. Minutes later, a woman told the same man to turn the volume down. I finally went outside after I finished eating the last meal, a cake. I was so relieved when I got out of the building and saw a beautiful sunset about going down. On the way back to my place where Dad was going to drop me off, I noticed there's a smoke coming out of somewhere and police blocked the street where Dad was driving on from drivers and us so Dad diverted to another street.
I finally called my mom thru a relay service in the computer and my uncle's phone number on Mother's Day at around lunch time yesterday. Mom is still in PA. I attempted calling her on the cell phone twice but the message said she's not available so I asked Dad in the fax if he have my uncle's phone number few hours before. I got a fax and did call Mom. Uncle Bill answered it and realized it's me so he handled his phone to Mom. I said to Mom thru a relay service, "Happy Mother's Day!" and we talked about things personally. I felt better when I talked to her.
Found out my youngest brother, David, and his wife, Nhat, were going on a Bahamas and Cozumel cruise vacation last Friday. They will be coming home today. I can't believe it. It is their first time.

Update on Wildfires

This morning, I can see a smoky air all over our area but little bit before 10 am or 11 am. Again. I also can smell a smoke little bit when I opened the door but later the smoky air is lifted. See a local TV news here.
I discovered my local newspaper ran a special report about Wildfires '98 online. See it below:


Wildfires '98
The wildfire started in late May 1998. I was working at sunglasses company, Capo, at that time. Capo is north of where I lived. My husband, Todd, and I were living together as a married couple in a different apt. We smelled a smoke so bad. The smoky air was coming from north. We had no rain for almost 3 months. One night in July 1998, while my husband was working at a hotel in Daytona Beach, Dad came over to get me out of my apt quickly. I was upset. I was trying to watch a movie tape but he interrupted me. As Dad was driving a car, I noticed so many vehicles like big trucks, cars, etc. were heading for U.S. 1 or A1A road from Ridgewood Avenue. Traffic was bad. First stop at my husband's work in Daytona Beach cuz Dad informed Todd about our place and where I stay. And then Dad sent me to a different hotel on a beachfront in Ormond Beach. Later on, I learned so many residents on the west side of Nova Road were evacuated but I lived on the east side. Dad was probably wrong. I think he was confused. At the hotel that night, we called Mom in Melbourne, Florida, where my oldest brother lived in at that time, she was stuck there. I complained Mom about Dad personally. Todd and I were staying at a hotel for one night and one day. And we returned to our apt. We later went back to Melbourne for visiting Mom and Joe. One night as Todd was driving a car, we noticed a smoke coming out of area on the east side of us. We were diverted to another road south, not on I-95 highway. A big fire. Wow!
That's it.

Entry for May 03, 2007

Good Morning, everyone!

Do u know what a sign lanugage for "coffee" is? Look what I found in Glitter Graphics:

I have a problem with Yahoo yesterday. When I opened up my homepage that early morning, I discovered pictures of Y360 friends in my friends list disappeared. I can't believe it! I was upset. My page looks screwing up. The count of page views is reducing in my homepage, too. I guess I do remember I have had about 50,000. Anyways, I went over to check out friends list in some Y360 friends' homepage and found a picture of me is still in there. Thank God. I believe all of my Y360 friends still have it in their friends list. I posted a comment in the homepage of Yahoo 360 Team about this problem. Later on, I sent e-mailing to Yahoo Help Team and asking for fixing it but still no response back to me. I was still waiting for pictures of Y360 friends to be reappeared all day yesterday but nothing happened. I am disappointed. And this morning when I opened up my homepage as I was hoping for, too. Still waiting.

Last Tuesday morning, I went to a grocery at Wal-Mart. I noticed the price of my breakfast at McDonald's is raising little bit. It changes. Goodness. After I finished shopping, I noticed a black man in the wheelchair got out of his black van that is being parked in the handicapped space when automatic doors on the right side of his van were opening. Cool. His van looks big. Wow! When that same black man returned after finished doing his shopping, he was waiting for automatic doors to be opened for him and got in then closed them as he was about leaving Wal-Mart. I was looking at him doing something as I was waiting for Dad to come picking me up outside.

I bought a package of 5 blank video tapes at Wal-Mart a month ago but I have a problem with the tape. I already tossed out an old blank video tape. It should to be 6 hours longer to record some programs on NBC when I go out but instead, TWO HOURS! Groans! Damn it, I missed 2 other programs on it today. Someday I will have a TiVo or DVR but I don't think I can afford which one of them. I may wait until in the future. I don't know which one is the BEST. Anyways, Wal-Mart doesn't have a video tape cleaner. It's already gone. It will be displayed in couple days but I told Wal-Mart employee I will come back next week last Tuesday. The video player needs a clean immediately. The message showed up automatically to inform me it's time to clean on my TV screen last week or so.

Yesterday morning, I noticed a smoky air all over an area outside my apt. I can smell smoking little bit. Smoky air was coming from north, in another county where the wildfire was located. A wildfire started last Tuesday night. Some residents were evacuated from their home but last night evacuation lifted. See a local TV news about it here. Wildfires remind me of 1998, remember that? It was terrible. In that year, 1998, we had no rain for almost 3 months. I-95 highway was closed so residents couldn't get out of harm's way and got trapped in our area. Smelled a smoking was so bad.

That's it for now.

SEE YA!

Video of "One Night with the King"

Have u seen this Biblical movie, "One Night with the King"? It's really good. I am recommending this to u. I enjoyed watching it last Sat night and yesterday morning. It's about a story of a young woman named Esther who risked her life. U will find out why she risked her life in that movie but I am not going to tell u what happened in it if u haven't seen it yet. LOL!
Here is a video:

Here is an info about this movie: One Night with the King

SEE YA!

Deaf Culture: History Through Deaf Eyes

I have an idea that was come up last night when I received an e-mail back from a woman who works for Gallaudet University. Last week on Wednesday, the TV program called, "Through Deaf Eyes" on PBS but that network on the channel, I figured and think, screwed up the schedule. It was not in there. I was disappointed. This program was supposed to be discussing 200 years of deaf life in America. So, I e-mailed to inform NAD (National Association of the Deaf) about this special program that was not on PBS channel when I discovered it that night. I might be buying DVD one day. Hopefully. When I went to an online of Barnes & Noble, a big bookstore company, if it have "Through Deaf Eyes", few minutes ago. Yes, it have one but it will be released on May 22, 2007. Yay! Also, Barnes & Noble have a book about it that will be published next month. I might be going to Barnes & Noble in Daytona Beach for buying it next month and DVD in May. Some of u bloggers don't know anything about the history of deaf culture. I have info about the website of "Through Deaf Eyes" below:
History Through Deaf Eyes
Let me know what do u think of this deaf culture.

See Ya!

Entry for March 23, 2007

I went to a grocery at Wal-Mart this early afternoon. My mother dropped me off there. She replaced Dad cuz he was still in the hospital and resting there after his surgery. I went to get a case for my digital camera while I was doing a shopping. And then ate my lunch at McDonald's. Afterwards, I went on continued doing a grocery. My neck got a hit by a bottle of cheese dip for crackers as I was trying to get it from the top shelf but I am okay and not hurting. It was an accident. I noticed so many shoppers were lined up waiting for their turn at the counter when I finished shopping. I waited 10-15 minutes outside for Mom to pick me up. She's late again. I knew her well. Finally, Mom showed up. She dropped me off at my place. Mom did put my food away before she gets me from her car. And then she left. Mom went to get Dad from a hospital. That's good news.
UPDATE on Dad: I've got more details about him. I learned that Dad had a blockage in main artery of his heart, but doctors put a stent in the main artery to open it up yesterday. Do u know what the stent looks alike? I do. I have heard about it on the news few times.

As I was looking at Mom's fax message that she wanted me to tell David about Dad this morning but David already knows, I noticed she spelled "stint" but it turned out wrong when I went searching for Yahoo Image minutes ago. I was confused by this spelling word. So, I corrected it.

That's it for now.

Art Portrait Of My Dad

This is an art portrait of my Dad. It was painted by my mother's sister, Ginny. Aunt Ginny gave it to Mom as her birthday present in 1973. Few years ago, Dad gave it to me when he came over to my place for a visit so I can have it. I love that picture very much. I took a digital photo of Dad in my bedroom several minutes ago. It gave me a good idea.
Have news about Dad. Dad is in the hospital for having plagues in his arteries to be cleaned out this morning. His arteries has been repaired successfully. Thank God. This reminds me of Regis Philbin who was having a heart surgery last week like I blogged about him. Anyways, I didn't want to tell u about Dad. I had to wait and see what happened. When I found out he's going back to the hospital few days ago, I was surprised. I asked Dad what's wrong with him. He told me about his heart little bit. I noticed he's tired and having a trouble breathing sometimes when he came over. Anyways, Dad is staying at the hospital as he was about recovering from his surgery for 2 days or so.