Make Me Cry

Today I was chatting with my mother on MSN when she told me that a childhood friend of mine has passed away.   His name was Shaun Peter McNamara and here is his obituary.   He died of Cancer… what else. Shaun Peter (never Shaun… it was always Shaun Peter) lived across the street from ‘Big Barb’, the woman who babysat me from …

Whew, it was hard for me getting my site this color.  I’m really not a fan of pink, but I tried to get the most decent color pink possible, rather than some in your face bubblegum pink. A lot of bloggers are making their sites pink for October to promote Breast Cancer Awareness, which I think is awesome.   Like me, …

Steve Irwin is dead. If you are like me, you’re probably saying? Who?!. At least that’s what I said when I woke up this morning and Xander told me the news. Not many people really know him by his real name, when xander said ‘The crocodile hunter guy’, it immediately hit me. Wow… the first thing I thought of was …

I am crushed. I am heartbroken. I am to blame. Today the other Bunker died. This morning I found him laying on one of the rocks in the aquarium, his little head hanging down into the water. I was sure he was dead. When I picked him up he lifted his head and I realized that he was still alive. …

I am a horrible mother… Today Xander found one of our turtles dead in the aquarium. Now the other Bunker is left all alone. I had a feeling over the past few days that one of them wasn’t well, and I mentioned it a few times but Xander told me they were fine so I didn’t press it. I should …

A while ago I wrote about a guy who got fired for blogging. He worked for a company called Waterstone’s in the UK and was fired when his boss found out he’d been writing about work on his blog. Today, in my travels on Blogexplosion I came across yet another blogger fired for blogging. Apparently he was given no warning, …

Eish… Last night I couldn’t sleep at all. I tossed and turned and couldn’t seem to get comfortable.. I got up at 5:30am and vegged in front of my laptop for a while and when I checked my email I found this: Yeah. You don’t know me. I’m the younger brother of Jason Sheppard. I’m writing to let you know …

Today Xander and I went out to a movie and lunch with some friends, it was well timed because I found myself unable to stop thinking about David and Gail. When I got home I heard through a mutual friend that David passed away at 1:15am this morning. There isn’t really much I can say that I didn’t already in …

The other day I got a package in the mail from my friends Gail and David, it was the coolest looking package.. wrapped in a map. When I opened it, it included an M&M figure full of tiny M&M’s, a big bag of Hershey Kisses, a desk calender about knitting and two CD’s of 80’s music. One of which was …

I was looking over some old blogs from this time last year and can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by. My parents always told me that the older you get the faster the time goes by. If it goes this quick now I think I year will go by in a blink by the time I’m 70… Last …

Overnight I have become my parents.. my parents have become their parents.. and it scares me to death. On March 25, 2005 at approximately 3pm in the afternoon, my aunt Pearly took her last breath. She was in her early 80’s and until this past year they had all been healthy. I was sure she’d live to be 100 years …