I’ve never been much of a boxing fan, and I’m really not into the wrestling that Hubby and CR watch on T.V. but I do read a lot and I just read a bit about Sugar Ray Robinson that was interesting. 

It seems that when he was 26 and in his boxing prime he had a dream the night before his fight with Jimmy Doyle, but no one would take him seriously.  He begged his trainer and manager to call off the fight but they would not listen to him, it took a priest to soothe Robinson and to convince him to go ahead with the fight and so the fight went on as scheduled.

Doyle and Robinson slugged it out for seven rounds, both men took a lot of punishment.  In the eight round Robinson dazed Doyle with a double right to the stomach and ear, then a left hook to the jaw put Doyle down.  He fell heavily and cracked the back of his head with loud thud.

They say that Sugar Ray stared down at the motionless Doyle as if he was experiencing his terrible dream again.  Apparently Doyle’s hand fluttered towards the ropes before the referee declared the fight at an end.  Doyle never regained consciousness, the following afternoon he died of head injuries.

Sugar Ray Robinson was torn by the tragedy and was always haunted by this warning dream.

Strange but true!

My sister lent me a book a year ago that really fascinated me called Shogun by James Clavell, it was the first in a series by Mr. Clavell.  When I was done with the book I was so depressed that it was over, that is when I found out that it was part of a saga and that there were several more books to go.

I’m glad that we have a pretty public library here and that I have a card.  I went on-line to the library’s website and happily learned that they had all of the rest of the series.  It took me over a year to read the whole series and now that I’m done with them all I am really bummed out because there isn’t anymore.  But I did find out that some of the books were made into movies and the library had one of them - Shogun.  It was actually a mini-series that was played on T.V. in the early 80’s, a lot of people I talked to remembered seeing it back then.

I have never once seen a movie that was better than the book and this was no different, but I’m glad that I got to see it even though it was on VHS instead of a DVD.  Hubby had to drag the old VCR out of the basement and hook it up for me to view the movie, it made me appreciate DVDs that is for sure.

Finally got all my W-2’s in the mail and so did my oldest daughter ML.

Last year I didn’t get all of mine until just a few weeks before the deadline of April 15th came around, which of course left me scrambling to get it all done in time, I remember going to Post Office last year on the 15th and the place was packed.  I don’t want that to happen again this year, plus the sooner you get it in the sooner you get your money.

I’m very lucky in that my sister has the computer program that does the taxes and she was nice enough to do mine and ML’s last year, I hope that I can count on her to do them all again this year.  When I take my taxes to a tax company it usually costs me over $200 which is a chunk of change that I could put to use for something else, like bills!

Guess I’ll gather up everything and take it with when we visit my sister over the week-end.

  I was able to watch just a bit of Ellen yesterday, I did glimpse over to see Hillary for a few seconds but didn’t catch enough of it, so I was glad to see in the paper that they spoke of it so I know that it really happened:

“Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting some help from a special guest during a fundraiser at George Washington University.

Ellen DeGeneres popped up during Clinton’s speech to ask how everyone was doing and to praise Clinton’s ability to solve problems. DeGeneres was beamed into the auditorium by satellite from her studio in New York, prompting loud cheers from the audience.

She turned serious, asking Clinton how she could change the momentum in her campaign after 11 straight losses to Democratic rival Barack Obama. Clinton says she’ll win Ohio and Texas.

It was Clinton’s fourth appearance on the Ellen Degeneres program.”

So it is Oprah for Obama & Ellen for Hillary - how about that!  Now, what talk show host is for John McCain?

This has been such a crazy winter season, I’m pretty well convinced that Global Warming is affecting the wacky weather conditions we are experiencing. 

School has been cancelled again today, we were expecting a really bad snow and ice storm, but so far it hasn’t amounted to much, but they really were not sure what to expect and they have learned to be cautious.

My youngest daughter CR got numerous gift cards for Christmas so we are going to go to the Mall here in a little while and we are gonna shop for some sales.  I enjoy shopping with her, the difference between her and my oldest daughter is uncanny, the oldest wants to buy everything and doesn’t care if I can afford it or not, while the youngest takes everything into consideration and feels uncomfortable in having me spend any money on her.  She would rather spend her own.

CR works hard for her money with her Dad at the flea market almost every weekend.  She is known as the ‘banker’ in the house, she almost always has $$ and doesn’t mind lending it to any of us when we need it.

During the summer and fall she takes the veggies that we grow in the garden and sells them at the flea market in the city.  People just love buying fresh produce from a pretty little girl from the country.  We don’t really live in the country but compared to the big city, we might as well be.  She also learned to buy cases of bottled water for $4 and sells each bottle for $1 at the market and she cleans up.  Plus she has made friends with some of the other dealers and they hire her to watch their stand for them when needed and she helps them pack and load up at the end of the day.  Sometimes she comes home with more money than her Dad.