Katrina_Cravy's Blog

I went out swinging way too many Thursday at Brown Deer Golf Course but it was a beautiful day and it was for a good cause.

The event benefitting First Tee Milwaukee County, dedicated to getting girls and boys involved in golf from a young age to teach values and responsibility. (www.thefirsttee.org)

For many kids it's free or at most $40 dollars for the program. Check it out!

 

Nothing against the '50s, but what's up with our government?

Here's the story:

"While some folks wait patiently for their stimulus check-- other people are getting two!The IRS says it accidentally doubled up checks to about fifteen-hundred people.

If you got that extra check-- don't cash it.

 

The Feds say you should write "void" on the back of the check-- and mail it back to the IRS with a note.  If a second stimulus check was deposited electronically-- contact your bank."

This is what I think:

Write void and send the check and a little note back to the government! Give me a break. What should the note say, "Thanks for getting me excited and then dashing my hopes by making me spend 42 cents more to send you this note to say, you screwed up."

They should put stop payments on those checks--jump into the electronic world of 2008.

While 1500 people isn't a huge mistake given our population, they should know who double-dipped. My fear is--they don't know.

This is an email I got from a viewer:

Ms. Cravy:

I listen to Fox6 while in the car, before and after work.  I still have my Albert the Alley Cat knit hat from way long ago.  So, I’m hooked on “Channel 6”.  I wanted to share something that my 14 y.o. daughter created as a project in her 8th grade Info-Media class at Frank Lloyd Wright Middle School.  Each student was to create a video as a final project. 

Rachel had periodically told me about the song she chose and “cool pictures” she had found to add to her video.  When I first clicked play, I smiled and sat up straight.  I thought, wow, she really learned a great skill.  As I watched the video, I began to cry because I realized, she really “got it” !  Please view this video, and then decide what to do after viewing it to its end. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdl1ygDTLbw

 MY RESPONSE:

You should be a VERY proud mother. Your daughter absolutely got it! I asked if I could post it..she said yes.

 

Do you have old T-V's, or maybe a computer monitor that you're going to throw out?

I was in the basement and saw 3 old monitors, 2 old vcr's and an old scanner. I think we need to toss 'em.

Good news though--Wisconsin is one of the states where "Best Buy" is testing a free program to help you recycle old electronics.

They'll accept computer processors, computer monitors and t-v's with screens up to 32- inches.

They will *not* take console t-v's (big old tv's in a wood box that use to be a piece of furniture), air conditioners, or microwave ovens.

The store already accepts some electronics waste... like cell phones and empty ink-jet cartridges.

Do you or your children have a red bite mark around your neck or hairline? Blood is drawn so some are rushing to emergency rooms to find out what it is.

I'm just glad we did a story on it, so I knew. My mother-in-law was bitten above the eye and it puffed up and nearly shut her eye..

So what is it? Check out the story:

http://www.myfoxmilwaukee.com/myfox/pages/ContentDe
tail?contentId=6551427

 

Eight years ago, I spoke to the Milwaukee Lutheran High School Women's Guild about what it was like taking over Contact 6 after Tom Hooper.

Today I had the chance to speak to these wonderful ladies again  The ladies at my table had been married for more than 50 years and they were sharing their stories about how they met their husbands,

I want to be them when I grow up.

Mine started out at 5:50 a.m. Way too earlier!  Somehow that word, "Mommy" is like a cold water splash in the morning. It would wake me if I was sleeping in another hemisphere.

But now he's learned how to say "snuggle me" too.  It melts me everytime.

Mothers, what melts you?  

MILWAUKEE AREA RESIDENTS
TO WALK FOR A WORLD FREE OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
 
 
(MILWAUKEE, WI) – This Sunday, residents from the Milwaukee area will join more than 11,000 people throughout the state and walk for a world free of multiple sclerosis (MS) at Walk MS: Christopher & Banks Walk 2008, celebrating 20 years. The walk will take place on Sunday, May 4, at the Summerfest grounds at Milwaukee’s lakefront. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m., with the walk to follow at 10:00 a.m. Participants may choose from a 3.1 or 7.5 mile route, beginning and ending at the same location. Special guest Senator Alberta Darling is scheduled to participate in the festivities. Walk MS is an event of the National MS Society – Wisconsin Chapter.
 
Spread over three weekends, Walk MS 2008 takes place in 13 cities throughout Wisconsin, raising funds to support research, client programs and services, and advocacy efforts for the more than 10,000 families living with MS in the state.   Other area cities hosting Walk MS events this weekend are: Oconomowoc (Greenland Elementary) and Racine/Kenosha (UW-Parkside).
 
Walk MS is a fully supported event, providing scenic and accessible routes, rest stops with food and beverages, first aid, and snacks. Additional entertainment will be provided by Jo Jo and the Monkeys. 
 
Although there is no registration fee, pledges are required. Participants are eligible for award and prize incentives based on the funds they raise. Last year’s MS Walk raised more than $1.8 million throughout the state. The goal for 2008 is to raise$1.9 million statewide, with more than $470,000 coming from the Milwaukee walk.
 
Sponsors of the event include Christopher & Banks, Acorda, American Family Insurance, Potawatomi, Open Pantry, Bank of Elmwood, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield: Blue View Vision, the Cordon Foundation, Whyte, Hirschboek & Dudek, and RW Baird. 
 
MS interrupts the flow of information from the brain to the body and stops people from moving. It is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men contracting the disease. One in 500 Wisconsin residents lives with MS, giving our state one of the highest incidence rates in the country. While the progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, advances in research and treatment are giving hope to those affected by the disease.
 
MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn’t. For more information visit www.wisMS.org or call 262.369.4400 or 800.242.3358 toll free in Wisconsin. Join the movement.

Many of you know that my mother-in-law has Multiple Sclerosis, so I do all I can to help the MS Society.

So check out what should be a great event to support good people  .

Forget cooking dinner -- Thursday, May 1st   :)

http://www.eagleentertainmentdjservice.com/image/MSPo
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"Piece, Mommy, Piece," my son begs. 

Naps and night-night require it.

And I won't some real peace, until I find  his "piece."

It's a piece made by the loving hands of my grandmother.

A small cream afghan that seems to wrap him up in a cloud. But you can only find "piece" on one corner. It's a mistake really.

His G.G. (great grandmother )says she doesn't tie off her last loop right, but he LOVES it.

He rubs "piece" in his nose and his ears and it lulls him to sleep. Weird I know.

Don't we all wish we still had our "piece."