Well here we are 
My little corner of the world.
s you can see I am Canadian to the core ;-)
I'm happy that you have taken the time to visit.
Please sit back and grab a cup of 
or a 
(whatever turns your crank ;-) and enjoy.
You are wondering what you are looking at aren't you.
Well this cat cartoon represents the way I look on a normal day at work.
And if I am not in that mode I am in this one 
.....there is never a dull moment
The midi playing is 
"Flight of the Bumblebee"
which represents the pace I keep most of my work day ;-)
And this is Moi away from work.
This photo was taken three years ago
and due to my extremely busy lifestyle
I have not had the time to get another taken.
Naturally neither of these photo's catch me
as I really am (hey I'm not moving here) but hopefully
they will suffice for the time being.
I am the Office Manager for a local Good News Newspaper. Actually we have two newspapers that go out to the reader. South Side Story is the one distributed here in my home town of Sudbury ON, Canada. This photo is Science North one of our main tourist attractions.
Kicks is the humour publication that we send out to many parts of this world for distribution either as a "stand alone" or placed within the local newspaper as their humour section. The "Bermuda Sun" and the "Porcupine Press" came on board about a year ago and they are doing great with the new publication. Perhaps sometime you will pick up a copy somewhere in this vast world of ours.
My taste is "Champagne" but my budget "Beer Bottle" so there are times when I have
to pass up something that I really want unless it comes on sale at a great price. Being an Aries
I do not like being second to anyone or any thing.
This is one of our traits that I cannot change. My main interests are Rob,
children, music, and life in general. I adore 
and 
nature 
and could never forget 
the enchanting sound of the wind chimes. I have a few dislikes of course such as liver, ha ha does any one really like liver? loud obnoxious people, the bar scene, liars, people who don't realize that an animal is an animal and should be treated as one. (hey I'm a little guilty here myself because I talk to Sally like she is understanding what I say) It makes me wonder why they don't realize the disease that is carried by an animal. Don't get me wrong here I love animals and have had a dog or cat all my life. It is just that the average pet spends it's day licking itself or other animals and the germ is not from one but possibly a dozen other animals. Some people seem to ignore this. Oh well look at that ha ha a "Pet Peeve."
Now I would like to introduce my family.
This is Rob, the love of my life!!! We met through an internet ad service. It's nine months later and we are very much in love. I am actually 95% sure this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. Seemed to me that I would never find the man of my dreams as I married very young and had my lovely children. I lived a life of pure hell with their father and after 28 years of physical and mental abuse I left and divorced him. Throughout those years I remained loyal and believed that some day he would grow up and be the man that he led me to believe he was. I was wrong and cried from the wedding night until I finally gave up and almost lost my mind. I began to believe the things he accused me of and although in the later years he quit the physical abuse the mental abuse really took its toll on me. Now I am extremely happy and with Rob's love and understanding I am slowly coming out of the shell I climed into so many years ago.
The most interesting thing about my new life is the fact that both Rob and myself are Aries. In fact his birthday is the day after mine. Most of our likes and dislikes are the same and in the beginning it overwhelmed me. It is very hard to explain how one feels to find their significant other but I have and I pray that this will last for eternity. Anyway enough of this negitivity. It is the past and is almost buried and forgotten.
I have four wonderful children who are currently working and living on their own,
NO BAGGAGE! Photos to follow.
Rob has a lovely daughter and she also is living and working away from our fair city. He has a beautiful dog named Sally and we have become friends.(Sally would follow anyone to the end of the earth if she thought they were going to give her something to eat besides dogfood) I will post her picture here soon. She is a very quiet, loveable dog. The only problem is that she sheds hair (A LOT OF HAIR) and I like to wear black a lot of the time so you know what that means ha ha ....I carry a lint brush with me every where I go.
As you can see from Rob's photo he is in very good shape physically and mentally. He works out
to stay this way and I am very proud of him and his sexy body. Just as I, he has been working for the same company for over ten years. His work day begins an hour before mine but I always get up with him to see him off just as he does for me. It is such a pleasure to watch him emerge from his sleepy state in the morning. I always get a laugh as it is a fact that women wake up the moment their foot hits the floor (that is if they have experienced motherhood ;-) and the men well what can I say except that it is a good thing that they were not mothers because there would have been a lot less births in this world.
I believe that one must have a good old fashioned "belly laugh" each day. Without it I could not survive as this world is so full of bad, negative news. It is the same with music......my world would be incomplete if I could not hear music around me each day. What do you think..... could you exist without laughter and music? Anyway this page brings me happiness and hopefully it will lift your spirits a little if you are down or even make your day happier for a while. There will be jokes, general humour, brain aerobics, etc etc and some midi's for your listening pleasure. I will post new jokes etc when I find one suitable. So without further ado on with the humour.
If you have a joke or two you would like to share please email me at
Holy Cow
A man was helping one of his cows give birth,
when he noticed his 4-year-old son standing wide-eyed at the fence,
soaking in the whole event.
The man thought, "Great....he's 4
and I'm gonna have to start explaining the birds and bees.”
No need to jump the gun
I'll just let him ask, and I'll answer.
After everything was over, the man walked over to his son and said,
“Well son, do you have any questions?"
"Just one" gasped the still wide-eyed lad.
"How fast was that calf going when he hit that cow in the rear!"
An engineer, a programmer, and their manager go out for lunch.
On the way from the car to the restaurant
they find a magic lamp 
in the parking lot.
They rub it and out pops a genie.
"I can grant but three wishes and because there are three
of you, each will receive one wish" he said.
The programmer went first.
"I want to be in Tahiti surrounded by beautiful women" he said.
POOF!! He disappeared.
The engineer went next.
"I want to be in Hawaii with a huge house, tons of money,
and surrounded by gorgeous women"
he said. POOF!! He disappeared.
The manager went last.
His wish.....,
"I want them both back in the office after lunch."
If Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals
Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say:
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
You can't say this? What a shame sir!
We'll find you another game sir.
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
Aerobics For your Brain
(1) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contestants do. What is it?
it?
(2) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
(3) Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted
every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
(4) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and
midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?
(5) What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without
touching the ball?
(6) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
(7) In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is
genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
(8) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw". They are all common. Name two of them.
(9) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
(10) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
(11) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls - a walk - is one
way. Name the other six.
(12) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
(13) How is it possible for a pitcher to make four or more strikeouts in one inning?
(14) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the letter "s".
Answers can be found here: Answers
In the backwoods of Tennessee,
a man's wife went into labor in the middle of the night
and the doctor was called out to assist in the delivery.
Since there was no electricity,
the doctor handed the father-to-be a lantern and said,
"Here, you hold this high so I can see what I'm doing."
Soon, a baby boy was brought
into the world.
"Whoa there," said the doctor,
"Don't be in a rush to put the lantern down ...
I think
there's yet another one to come."
Sure enough, within minutes he had delivered a
baby girl.
"No, no, don't be in a great hurry to be putting down that lantern.
It seems there's yet
another one in there!" cried the doctor.
The backwoods man scratched his head in bewilderment
and asked the doctor, "Do
you think it's the light what's attractin' 'em?"
Poor Birdie!
Chippie the parakeet never saw it coming.
One second he was peacefully perched in his cage.
The next he was sucked in, washed up, and blown over.
The problems began when Chippie's owner decided to clean
Chippie's cage with a vacuum cleaner.
She removed the attachmentfrom the end of the hose and stuck it in the cage.
The phone rang, and she turned to pick it up.
She'd barely said "Hello" when--sssopp!
Chippie got sucked in.
The bird owner gasped, put down the phone,
turned off the vacuum, and opened the bag.
There was Chippie--
still alive, but stunned.
Since the bird was covered with dust and soot,
she grabbed him and raced to the bathroom,
turned on the faucet, and held Chippie underthe running water.
Then, realizing that Chippie was soaked and shivering,
she did what any compassionate bird owner would do...
she eached for the hair dryer and blasted the pet with hot air.
Poor Chippie never knew what hit him.
A few days after the trauma,
the reporter who had initially written about the event
contacted Chippie's owner to see how the bird was recovering.
"Well," she replied,
"Chippie doesn't sing much anymore--
he just sits and stares."
It's not hard to see why.
Sucked in, washed up, and blown over...
that's enough to steal the song from the stoutest heart.
