I know I wrote about adults texting while driving but now I am going to write about: Adults driving while talking on their cell phones.
About 3 days ago I was heading over to Warren to drop off a couple of very heavy skids and just when I was at the part of the highway where there are 5 lanes and very packed with traffic....A man was driving to the right of me and he was weaving in and out of his lane hitting the rumble strips....and YES he was talking on a cell phone. Then the next thing I knew I saw a tire heading towards my windshield, I could not avoid it by changing lanes as for there was another car on the left of me.....so trying to think fast without panicking and getting into a very bad wreck (at 70 mph) I had to hit my brakes so that the tire was then heading under my front wheels instead of coming towards my window and possibly shattering it into a million pieces and maybe cutting me very badly. I ran the tire over, it lifted my whole vehicle up into the air as if I had hit a large animal such as a deer or something. After I hit the tire I don't know what path it took after that, I am hoping it didn't hurt some other driver. The man that started the whole problem never missed a beat with his phone....he didn't hang it up, he didn't look around to see what he hit, and he didn't give a darn if anyone had gotten hurt from the whole scenario.
Please if you plan on talking on the phone while you are driving can you please keep an eye on the road and on the sides of the road....how do you not know you are on the side of the road past the rumble strips hitting a tire and sending it sailing into the air to do some horrible damage.
Again I can say that I am very proud that the children that I see driving while I am traveling everywhere for work are very cautious and keep an eye out for their fellow drivers. Bless them for helping keep other drivers safe by staying off their phones.
We never had cell phones before, we kept our calls to when we returned home or needed a pay phone and we had a lot safer places to drive. Why must the adults set the stage by disobeying the laws, don't they realize that driving with a cell phone can really cause a lot of harm to people maybe even DEATH!!!
I hope their children don't follow in their footsteps.
God bless you all and have a very safe weekend.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Sunday, November 18, 2012
The Raw Truth About Deer.........
I feel so sorry for all the deer here in Michigan; if they are not killed by people with guns they are killed by people with cars.
I think that I may have mentioned in one of my previous blogs that I drive for a delivery company.....so....needless to say I see a lot of things happening on the road everyday. And, the most that I see is dead deer. There is whole deer and then there is the poor deer that is completely ground into hamburger.
I see dented cars that are at the side of the road after hitting a deer and then I see no cars anywhere in sight but the deer is very evident that it died a horrific death.
I understand that we do have an over population of deer and our state joked about making the deer our state animal instead of our state bird the Robin.
This past Friday on the 16th of November....which is one day after hunting season opened up, I was driving East on I-96 and then West on I-96 coming back to the company....which is over 300 miles round trip, and I came across a few police cars that were stopped with a few different cars and each one of them cars had been involved in a deer crash. A couple of the cars were quite damaged and with them damaged cars were deer insides and outsides so strewn across the highway that they were barely recognized.
Secondly....I was fueling up and started talking to a tow truck driver and he told me he was just returning from a fatal accident that happened on a highway that travels south through Michigan. He said and I quote...."I just came from a fatal accident where a woman had a deer run out in front of her car and she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting the deer....the deer was a 5-point Buck. She managed to not hit the deer and saved his life just long enough to loose it on the other side of the highway....and in doing so, someone hit the back end of her car going 70+ MPH and killed her on the spot." Then the tow truck driver told me he had asked the police man if he could keep the antlers from the deer and the police man told him he could not have them as for he promised to give them to the other tow truck driver, who picked up the car from the other side of the highway, the one that actually hit the deer and took its life.
Now in saying all this....I am the type that would do her best not to hit a deer or any other animal that I see on the highway....but sometimes you just don't have a chance to get out of the way.
Later in the night I was driving home from work....which is about a 40 minute drive and the fog was so heavy that I had to drive 35-40mph on the highway just to get home safely.....but.....the whole time I was driving all I could picture was a deer is going to jump out in front of me and then I am going to get very hurt in the small car I'm driving, because how do you see anything especially the deer in the thick fog.
I know we have to do something about the deer population because they are claiming lots of lives, but when my town tried to shoot off some deer and donate the meat to local food pantries, they just kept multiplying. There are also small wire fences that go the entire length of all the major highways but they are to short to keep the deer from jumping over them.
Don't get me wrong I love all GOD'S animals and it saddens me so much to see these deer strewn over 50 feet and nothing left of them, every piece of deer is pounded into the pavement of the highways over and over and what is scary enough is the splatter of blood almost the entire stretch of every highway.
Please be very careful while driving and try not to let someone tailgate you because if you do find yourself braking for any animal it might be the last time you live to do that. ( Tailgating with be another story for later)
If you are a believer of Christ please pray for everyone on the highway and for the animals to stay off the highway......so all can live.
I wish they would clean up the carcases that way I wouldn't have such high anxiety driving over all of their strewn out innards.
Please don't swerve or slam on your brakes if you have an animal in your path.....only if you have no traffic around you, can you attempt such a thing and in a slow safe manner. I know what you may be thinking....I'm afraid to hit this animal it might kill me by going through my windshield or it's going to destroy my vehicle or both; those are my exact thoughts as well.....and knock on wood I haven't hit an animal yet.
<> Drive Safe and Be Happy <>
I think that I may have mentioned in one of my previous blogs that I drive for a delivery company.....so....needless to say I see a lot of things happening on the road everyday. And, the most that I see is dead deer. There is whole deer and then there is the poor deer that is completely ground into hamburger.
I see dented cars that are at the side of the road after hitting a deer and then I see no cars anywhere in sight but the deer is very evident that it died a horrific death.
I understand that we do have an over population of deer and our state joked about making the deer our state animal instead of our state bird the Robin.
This past Friday on the 16th of November....which is one day after hunting season opened up, I was driving East on I-96 and then West on I-96 coming back to the company....which is over 300 miles round trip, and I came across a few police cars that were stopped with a few different cars and each one of them cars had been involved in a deer crash. A couple of the cars were quite damaged and with them damaged cars were deer insides and outsides so strewn across the highway that they were barely recognized.
Secondly....I was fueling up and started talking to a tow truck driver and he told me he was just returning from a fatal accident that happened on a highway that travels south through Michigan. He said and I quote...."I just came from a fatal accident where a woman had a deer run out in front of her car and she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting the deer....the deer was a 5-point Buck. She managed to not hit the deer and saved his life just long enough to loose it on the other side of the highway....and in doing so, someone hit the back end of her car going 70+ MPH and killed her on the spot." Then the tow truck driver told me he had asked the police man if he could keep the antlers from the deer and the police man told him he could not have them as for he promised to give them to the other tow truck driver, who picked up the car from the other side of the highway, the one that actually hit the deer and took its life.
Now in saying all this....I am the type that would do her best not to hit a deer or any other animal that I see on the highway....but sometimes you just don't have a chance to get out of the way.
Later in the night I was driving home from work....which is about a 40 minute drive and the fog was so heavy that I had to drive 35-40mph on the highway just to get home safely.....but.....the whole time I was driving all I could picture was a deer is going to jump out in front of me and then I am going to get very hurt in the small car I'm driving, because how do you see anything especially the deer in the thick fog.
I know we have to do something about the deer population because they are claiming lots of lives, but when my town tried to shoot off some deer and donate the meat to local food pantries, they just kept multiplying. There are also small wire fences that go the entire length of all the major highways but they are to short to keep the deer from jumping over them.
Don't get me wrong I love all GOD'S animals and it saddens me so much to see these deer strewn over 50 feet and nothing left of them, every piece of deer is pounded into the pavement of the highways over and over and what is scary enough is the splatter of blood almost the entire stretch of every highway.
Please be very careful while driving and try not to let someone tailgate you because if you do find yourself braking for any animal it might be the last time you live to do that. ( Tailgating with be another story for later)
If you are a believer of Christ please pray for everyone on the highway and for the animals to stay off the highway......so all can live.
I wish they would clean up the carcases that way I wouldn't have such high anxiety driving over all of their strewn out innards.
Please don't swerve or slam on your brakes if you have an animal in your path.....only if you have no traffic around you, can you attempt such a thing and in a slow safe manner. I know what you may be thinking....I'm afraid to hit this animal it might kill me by going through my windshield or it's going to destroy my vehicle or both; those are my exact thoughts as well.....and knock on wood I haven't hit an animal yet.
<> Drive Safe and Be Happy <>
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Style.....Whole outfit under $5.00 Total....$2.93 with tax
Sweater, Glittery Tank-Top, Detailed Pants and Beautiful Boots.....
All for Under $5.00 can you believe that price???
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
The Raw Truth About Texting While Driving...
Texting while driving has been a problem for a few years now. I was on my way to Ohio and found myself stuck in a traffic jam....and I passed quite a few cars where the drivers were texting. Now much to my surprise every one that I saw was older. I want to say that the age bracket that was texting was from 30 to 50.
Now every day that I'm driving I see mostly women texting.....driving over 70mph and weaving in and out of lanes and sometimes almost side swiping other drivers; which are blind to the fact that they are so close to having an accident.
We put a lot of the blame on younger children and teens for texting expecially while driving....now don't get me wrong there are kids texting while driving, but every young person I see driving I don't see them texting.
Maybe we should have all drivers that carry a cell phone watch a short video on what happens when you text and drive....even though I personally don't text and drive I do have to briefly look at a map and the 2 or 3 seconds that I take my eyes off the road, I find myself getting close to the lines in my lane. when this happened a couple times I decided to add a turn by turn app on my cell phone that way my eyes never leave the road....and I'm a driver by proffession so I feel I did my part to keep the other drivers driving by me safe.
Please if you text and drive at least get a phone that lets you record your texting instead of typing your texts.....or please call...or if it can wait then please let it wait. All our lives depend on it.
Thank you and God Bless you all.
P.S. Stay tuned for the raw truth on Fashion. We are going to buy a complete outfit.....head to toe for just $5.00. the outfit and the prices will be posted next Sunday on the 11th. Hope you enjoy what we pick out....any questions feel free to comment on here.
Bye, Bye and Good Night!!!!
Hugs................Karla
Now every day that I'm driving I see mostly women texting.....driving over 70mph and weaving in and out of lanes and sometimes almost side swiping other drivers; which are blind to the fact that they are so close to having an accident.
We put a lot of the blame on younger children and teens for texting expecially while driving....now don't get me wrong there are kids texting while driving, but every young person I see driving I don't see them texting.
Maybe we should have all drivers that carry a cell phone watch a short video on what happens when you text and drive....even though I personally don't text and drive I do have to briefly look at a map and the 2 or 3 seconds that I take my eyes off the road, I find myself getting close to the lines in my lane. when this happened a couple times I decided to add a turn by turn app on my cell phone that way my eyes never leave the road....and I'm a driver by proffession so I feel I did my part to keep the other drivers driving by me safe.
Please if you text and drive at least get a phone that lets you record your texting instead of typing your texts.....or please call...or if it can wait then please let it wait. All our lives depend on it.
Thank you and God Bless you all.
P.S. Stay tuned for the raw truth on Fashion. We are going to buy a complete outfit.....head to toe for just $5.00. the outfit and the prices will be posted next Sunday on the 11th. Hope you enjoy what we pick out....any questions feel free to comment on here.
Bye, Bye and Good Night!!!!
Hugs................Karla
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Raw Truth about Faith
***FAITH***I have had Faith all my life; Faith that things would go well, Faith that jobs would come my way and Faith that my Lord loved me. Now comes the testing of my Faith.
When I was 16 I was pushed into a very abusive relationship because my mom decided to move away from us kids and move into a boyfriends house.....leaving us the apartment with no money to pay for it. I decided to follow an older man to Chicago because I couldn't pay the rent with no job, so I dropped out of school and moved to Chicago.
6 Years of beatings and hiding I finely managed to escape for the final time.....Faith got me through it all. Then at 22 I got married and had my son at 23, another 6 years of cheating and verbal abuse and I managed to break free again....still holding on to Faith.
Then after finely feeling free I met another man that became my husband a year later. We stayed married just over ten years; life was almost perfect. I had gotten a divorce and for 3 years I was homeless, jobless and vehicle-less.....I am still struggling with all the above problems, but....my biggest test of Faith came after a positive test for Hepatitis C.
I do have a lot of health problems and I will be disabled for life, but when someone says you are real sick it hits like a ton of bricks. I had a lot of people praying for me; I asked my doctor how possible is it for a blood test to read wrong.....Well, she said, you have a 1% chance that it was a false positive, so we did another test. My Faith still holding on but scared all the same and with all the prayers my test came back clear......I don't have the sickness. 35 years of Faith and never once let down...now that is powerful and that's the Raw Truth!!! (Although it says 35 years of Faith and I am almost 45, it did take me at least 10 years to learn about Faith :0) )
When I was 16 I was pushed into a very abusive relationship because my mom decided to move away from us kids and move into a boyfriends house.....leaving us the apartment with no money to pay for it. I decided to follow an older man to Chicago because I couldn't pay the rent with no job, so I dropped out of school and moved to Chicago.
6 Years of beatings and hiding I finely managed to escape for the final time.....Faith got me through it all. Then at 22 I got married and had my son at 23, another 6 years of cheating and verbal abuse and I managed to break free again....still holding on to Faith.
Then after finely feeling free I met another man that became my husband a year later. We stayed married just over ten years; life was almost perfect. I had gotten a divorce and for 3 years I was homeless, jobless and vehicle-less.....I am still struggling with all the above problems, but....my biggest test of Faith came after a positive test for Hepatitis C.
I do have a lot of health problems and I will be disabled for life, but when someone says you are real sick it hits like a ton of bricks. I had a lot of people praying for me; I asked my doctor how possible is it for a blood test to read wrong.....Well, she said, you have a 1% chance that it was a false positive, so we did another test. My Faith still holding on but scared all the same and with all the prayers my test came back clear......I don't have the sickness. 35 years of Faith and never once let down...now that is powerful and that's the Raw Truth!!! (Although it says 35 years of Faith and I am almost 45, it did take me at least 10 years to learn about Faith :0) )
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Raw Truth About Health
Sometimes you just go through life without a glitch and then there are other times when you go through life and it's filled with glitches.
Speaking on my last bout with the hospital and my face surgery....it's not over by any means....it's just beginning.
I'm very scared to find out what the University of Michigan is going to say about my extensive bone movement. I won't know until the 28th of December. At least it will be after Christmas. I don't really celebrate Christmas anymore ever since I have been divorced it just don't have the same feeling of togetherness and family meaning any more.....and that's a shame, I used to get the tree up the day after Thanksgiving, get it decorated and have my son and husband add the star at the top just before turning it on. Warm and fuzzy memories.
Maybe some day things will get back to normal, I will be able to celebrate with my son and his family....if he hurries and gets moving on finding that special someone.
You always hear people say I should have done things differently with my life and yes, even I say that at times, but I am truly blessed with what I have and whom I have for a family......I wouldn't trade them for the world.
So I had surgery on my face 2 Friday's ago and Praise God it was not a cancerous mass that had been removed, it was just showing up as tissue and some bone fragments, which replicated a tumor because it moved my facial bone way out of place. I have to go to the University of Michigan so that they can observe my problem. My ENT Doctor here in town said he has never seen such a thing in all his practice and he is hoping that the UofM will say it is something that they see routinely and that will be the end of that.
I know my body and it won't be the end of that, they might want to reconstruct my bone or maybe try to move it back where it belongs, I just don't know yet.
I take things for granted to much on a daily basis, but now that I am over 44 I have to really watch my self or next thing you know I will be in ICU with something crazier then what I just had........I have to slow down because I am easily getting worried and I don't have a love life or someone who can just hug me and tell me everything is going to be OK, I'm by your side!! I'm still searching for that special someone again to sweep me off my feet and fall hopelessly in love with. Where are you at Honey, Honey, Honey!!! <3 lol
I was pondering a thought; back in 1994 I had to have a cyst removal in the roof of my mouth....yep that's right, in the roof of my mouth. I went to the dentist for a checkup because my front tooth was hurting, a bit loose (It had gotten hit years prior from an abusive x-boyfriend)...well it had gotten an abscess above it, just a pin size bump and I would always push the bump into my gums and it would go away in a couple days; I guess I was making it drain backwards by pushing on it and it formed a cyst and the cyst latched onto the pallet of my mouth and started to eat away the pallet. When I went to the dentist he told me that I had to have emergency surgery before the cyst burst and poison my brain........wow OK I had set up the surgery almost instantly....hum...Now we are sitting here 17 years later and I just had a large mass of tissue removed from behind my eye, which moved my bone as I mentioned above, do you think that the 2 things can be related?
If I could remember who my oral surgeon was at the time I would ask for a write up on it and maybe put together the findings from the past and now the future and they may be linked in some way.
I'm blessed to be alive....Praise God....I was saved 2 x by my brain almost getting poisoned, so someone up there really loves me a lot and still has work for me to do here on this plane and by George I'm going to comply.
If you have a health story similar, please feel free to comment, I would be very interested to hear about it.
God Bless you and Yours!!!
Speaking on my last bout with the hospital and my face surgery....it's not over by any means....it's just beginning.
I'm very scared to find out what the University of Michigan is going to say about my extensive bone movement. I won't know until the 28th of December. At least it will be after Christmas. I don't really celebrate Christmas anymore ever since I have been divorced it just don't have the same feeling of togetherness and family meaning any more.....and that's a shame, I used to get the tree up the day after Thanksgiving, get it decorated and have my son and husband add the star at the top just before turning it on. Warm and fuzzy memories.
Maybe some day things will get back to normal, I will be able to celebrate with my son and his family....if he hurries and gets moving on finding that special someone.
You always hear people say I should have done things differently with my life and yes, even I say that at times, but I am truly blessed with what I have and whom I have for a family......I wouldn't trade them for the world.
So I had surgery on my face 2 Friday's ago and Praise God it was not a cancerous mass that had been removed, it was just showing up as tissue and some bone fragments, which replicated a tumor because it moved my facial bone way out of place. I have to go to the University of Michigan so that they can observe my problem. My ENT Doctor here in town said he has never seen such a thing in all his practice and he is hoping that the UofM will say it is something that they see routinely and that will be the end of that.
I know my body and it won't be the end of that, they might want to reconstruct my bone or maybe try to move it back where it belongs, I just don't know yet.
I take things for granted to much on a daily basis, but now that I am over 44 I have to really watch my self or next thing you know I will be in ICU with something crazier then what I just had........I have to slow down because I am easily getting worried and I don't have a love life or someone who can just hug me and tell me everything is going to be OK, I'm by your side!! I'm still searching for that special someone again to sweep me off my feet and fall hopelessly in love with. Where are you at Honey, Honey, Honey!!! <3 lol
I was pondering a thought; back in 1994 I had to have a cyst removal in the roof of my mouth....yep that's right, in the roof of my mouth. I went to the dentist for a checkup because my front tooth was hurting, a bit loose (It had gotten hit years prior from an abusive x-boyfriend)...well it had gotten an abscess above it, just a pin size bump and I would always push the bump into my gums and it would go away in a couple days; I guess I was making it drain backwards by pushing on it and it formed a cyst and the cyst latched onto the pallet of my mouth and started to eat away the pallet. When I went to the dentist he told me that I had to have emergency surgery before the cyst burst and poison my brain........wow OK I had set up the surgery almost instantly....hum...Now we are sitting here 17 years later and I just had a large mass of tissue removed from behind my eye, which moved my bone as I mentioned above, do you think that the 2 things can be related?
If I could remember who my oral surgeon was at the time I would ask for a write up on it and maybe put together the findings from the past and now the future and they may be linked in some way.
I'm blessed to be alive....Praise God....I was saved 2 x by my brain almost getting poisoned, so someone up there really loves me a lot and still has work for me to do here on this plane and by George I'm going to comply.
If you have a health story similar, please feel free to comment, I would be very interested to hear about it.
God Bless you and Yours!!!
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