Thursday, February 7, 2008

My Favorite post

Rotten Neighbor

Locate, Rate, and Share Good and Bad Neighbors Before and After You Move

Have you ever looked at the top Technorati searches?

What a hoot!

There's a new site called 'Rotten Neighbor,' where you can research good or bad neighbors in areas you select.

Thinking of buying a house in a certain area?

Plug in the address and away you go.

Want to know what your neighbors think of you?

Put your current address and click 'search.'

I have not tried it, and don't think I will.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Beth's Year-End Answers




Here goes:

1. What did I learn? (skills, knowledge, awareness, etc.)
How to say 'NO' kindly but firmly.

2. What did I accomplish?
I went back to work after a ten month break.

3. What would I have done differently?
Nothing.
Why?
Because what's done is done, and I can't change it.

4. What did I complete or release?
Anger
4 (cont): What still feels incomplete to me?
Compassion for all, even myself.

5. What were the most significant events of the year past?
List the top three.
1. I went back to work.
2. I'm finally living alone again, for the first time in years.
3. I finally decided to act on something I have put off for years.

6. What did I do right?
Helped my family.
What do I feel especially good about?
Writing and meditating every day.

What was my greatest contribution?
To my family.

7. What were the fun things I did?

Whatever I wanted to do.

What were the not-so-fun?
Helping my family move out of state, 2,000 miles away from me.

8. What were my biggest challenges/roadblocks/difficulties?
Pulling my head out of my butt and taking charge of my life again.

9. How am I different this year than last?
I'm mentally and physically healthier also.

10. For what am I particularly grateful?
Prayer. It keeps me centered.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to all Blue Ribbon Bloggers, and all readers of this blog.

The picture to the right is a family photo, taken in the 1970s, I think. My mother loved Christmas, and she decorated with style every year.

My mother and father are both dead, my brother is in Florida, my son and grandchildren are in the Midwest.

But I'm not sad-- far from it, for they are all in my heart and mind, all the family holidays that we celebrated together, through good times and bad.

My prayers go out to all of you during the last legal holidays of 2007.

Please take the time to say thanks for every day you are able to draw breath and live in this world.

Try to remember all the good in the world, rather than the hatred and violence we are exposed to every day.

Shortly before he died, my father looked at me with tears in his eyes and asked me to be kind to all living creatures.

I'm going to pass his words on to all of you.

Happy holidays.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Googling Beth Allen

Have you ever Google'd (is that a word?) yourself?

I have an ongoing Google alert for my name, but for grins I ran a Google search of my name this morning.


  1. New Zealand actress Beth Allen.
  2. Beth-Allen Ladder and Equipment Company in Pennsylvania.
  3. The IMDb information for the actress in number 1.
  4. The Wikipedia entry for the actress in number 1.
  5. Beth Allen, an economist at The University of Minnesota.
  6. Beth Allen Online, the actress in #1.
  7. Beth Allen, the actress in#1, also has an entry at tv.com.
  8. Random House author search for the works of Beth Allen (my search produced no results, sadly).
  9. Me, finally!
  10. Beth Allen, a Prudential Real Estate Agent in Port Orchard, Washington.
I have some work to do, because the last time I did a Google search on myself (I had my original Beth Allen blog at the time), I came up #1.

Have a wonderful Sunday.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Woman crashes into hair salon - Vehicular weirdness- msnbc.com

Woman crashes into hair salon - Vehicular weirdness- msnbc.com

I'm always on the lookout for senior citizen stories, because I am so close to being a senior myself (and by some accounts I'm already there).

Della Miller, is 73 and lives in Soldotna, Alaska.

Della wanted to get her hair done, so she drove to the beauty salon, then drove into the salon by crashing through the windows of the unfortunate business.

To be fair, the parking area in front of the salon was covered with snow.

Della's car needs repair work to the tune of $2,500.

The building she crashed into needs about $1,500 repair work.

No one was injured, but one customer was knocked across the room when Della crashed through the windows.

Della did not get a ticket for the accident.

But she did get her hair done.

Trash the dress wedding photos - Styledash

Trash the dress wedding photos - Styledash

Trash the dress wedding photos, where young women wade into muddy ponds or do something else to ruin a beautiful wedding dress, really makes me laugh.

There's a personal reason, of course.

While waiting for my divorce papers to arrive, I put my wedding dress into my father's burning barrel in Wolcott, New York.

Then I lit a match and threw it into the barrel, cackling and dancing around the barrel like one of the witches from Macbeth.

Of course, I always miss trends, because I burned my dress in the Year of Our Lord 1976.

Check out the wedding photos--they are so interesting.

This is my first post on Blue Ribbon Bloggers, and thanks so much for asking me to join. I am honored and pleased to be here.