BURGLARS TELL YOU TO TAKE HEED!!

Recently there has been in the news more and more accounts of burglaries, some with violence to the poor people being victimized. I am in possession of some good information that might save someone from becoming a victim. Pay close attention, these are things we all need to be made aware of. These hints were given to law enforcement by career criminals that have gone straight.

WHO IS A BURGLAR?

Do I look familiar? I should, I was just here last week cleaning your carpets, or painting your house, landscaping, or delivering your new refrigerator.

Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was here last week, While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my return a little easier.

Sometimes, I carry a clipboard to look like I have legitimate business in your neighborhood. Sometimes, I dress like the lawn guy and carry a rake. I do my best to never ever look like a crook.

WHAT BURGLARS LOOK FOR...

Those toys your kids leave outside make me wonder what type of electronics and gaming systems you have inside your house.

Yes, I really do look for newspapers piled up in the driveway or on the porch. I might even leave a pizza flyer to see how long it takes to remove it.

If glass is part of your front entrance, don't let your alarm company install the alarm pad in view. That makes it easy to see if the alarm is set or not.

It's raining, you're fumbling with your unbrella and forget to lock your door, understandable! But understand this; I don't take a day off because of bad weather. When you are not paying attention I will be.

I always knock first to see if anyone answer, I'll ask for directions or offer to work in your yard for food, but don't take me up on it.

Do you really think I won't look in your sock drawer? I always check dresser drawers, the bedside tables, and the medicine cabinet.

I love looking in your windows. I'm looking for signs that you're home and for flat screen TV's or gaming systems I like. I'll drive or walk through your neighborhood at night before you close your blinds, just to pick out my targets.

HELPFUL HINTS...

I almost never ever go into kids rooms.

You are right; I won't have enough time to break into that safe where you keep your valuables but if it's not bolted down, I'll just take it with me.

A loud radio or TV can be as good a deterrent as an alarm system. If you're reluctant to leave the TV on while you're out of town, you can buy a timer that turns things on and off according to the times you set.

The things I hate worse are loud, or yappy dogs and nosey neighbors.

I'll break a window to get in even if it makes a little noise. If your neighbor hears one loud sound, he may stop what he's doing to listen and see if he hears it again. If he doesn't hear it again, he'll probably just go back to what he was doing. It's human nature.

Why would you pay all that money for a fancy alarm system, then leave your home without setting it? Yep, people actually do.

A good security company alarms the window over the sink and the windows on the second floor which often access the master bedroom and your jewelry. I also look for money, guns, and credit cards. It's not a bad idea to put motion detectors on the second floor too.

THINGS TO AVOID...

You may want to avoid announcing your vacation plans on your Facebook page. It's easier than you might think to find out your address.

To you leaving a window open just a crack during the day is a way to let fresh air in; but to me it's an invitation to come inside and help myself.

If you don't answer when I knock, I'll try the door. Occasionally, I hit the jackpot and stroll right into someones home left wide open.

Don't put a mourning or some form of berevement on your front door because we burglars check obituaries and funeral times. If something looks promising we will hit during the funeral. Hey, one persons loss is anothers gain and we are burglars after all. Do you really need a double tragedy???

NOTE:
I promised you a quiz today but felt this was more important. I will do the quiz say on Tuesday or Wednesday so watch for it...

THINGS MOTHER TAUGHT ME (part 2)

Here it is Friday and I have the rest of the things Mother Taught Me, and to the shigrin of my own two sons, the same things I taught them as their mother. Heres hoping there may be a few you could use on your own children or grandchildren, or not if you want to remain popular with them...


MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
"Stop acting like your father."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... ENVY
"There are millions of less fortunate children in the world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... ANTICIPATION
"Just wait until your father gets home."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... RECEIVING
"You are going to get yours when we get home young lady."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... MEDICAL SCIENCE
If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... ESP
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you're cold?"

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... HUMOR
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, you won't be laughing then."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT
"If you don't eat all your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... GENETICS
"You're just like your lazy father."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... ROOTS
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... WISDOM
"When you get to be my age, then you'll understand."

MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT... JUSTICE
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you."

There are probably many more lessens learned at the hand of my MOTHER. She was, and remains a wise and out spoken woman of the times...

Next Friday I will be asking you 28 questions that I consider BRAIN TEASERS. So put on your thinking caps Friday 25th. ands stop by for some challenging fun!!!

EXAMPLE:
Why isn't there mouse flavored cat food???

I OWE MY MOTHER

Recently on the Boomer Women Speaks forum my friend Queen JJ mentioned how fortunate she is to still have her mother to call up and speak to whenever she wants to. Many of the women there have lost their mothers. I too am one of the fortunate ones as my own mom is 90 years old and still clear headed and quite eager to share her ideas. That made me think of all I have to be thankful to my mother for because she taught my sibblings and myself her very own ideas of how to teach ones children. A few examples below...

MOTHER TAUGHT US TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE...
"If you're going to kill one another, do it outside, I just finished cleaning."

MOTHER TAUGHT US RELIGION...
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

MOTHER TAUGHT US ABOUT TIME TRAVEL...
"If you don't straighten up, I'll knock you into the middle of next week."

MOTHER TAUGHT US LOGIC...
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me.

MOTHER TAUGHT US FORESIGHT...
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

MOTHER TAUGHT US IRONY...
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

MOTHER TAUGHT US ABOUT SCIENCE OSMOSIS...
"Shut your mouth, and eat your dinner."

MOTHER TAUGHT US ABOUT CONTORTIONISM...
"Would you look at that dirt on the back of your neck."

MOTHER TAUGHT US STAMINA...
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

MOTHER TAUGHT US ABOUT WEATHER...
"This room of yours looks like a tornado blew through it."

MOTHER TAUGHT US ABOUT HYPOCRISY...
"If I told you once, I've told you a millioin times. Don't exaggerate!"

MOTHER TAUGHT ME THE CIRCLE OF LIFE...
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

These are just a few things mother taught us and there are more so check this blog again next Friday for the rest of the lessons my MOTHER TAUGHT and is STILL TEACHING US...

CHARITABLE WASTING...

How many charitable organizations do you think print and send out address labels, calendars etc. saying with these unasked for items, Thanks for your Donation!! If they just sent out a postcard asking for a donation it wouldn't cost nearly as much and most people I know, and that includes me, would send them something BUT when they send all this stuff no one even wants, with all their sad stories and reasons we need to give, and spending God know how much of the money meant for the children or other disease cures, it really ticks me off. Can you imagine what it costs to print the hundred of thousands of labels and all the wasted paper to write and try to guilt us into giving?

I for one open the envelope but unless there is a stamped self addressed envelope inside I toss the entire mess. If however there is a prepaid envelope inside I fold everything sent to me and stuff it into the envelope with a note saying: Stop bothering me... Then throw it in the mailbox to go right back from whence it came. Hoping this gets me off their list.

I happily give to certain charities every year with no coaxing what-so-ever or bribes. Thats what I think is right. If these so called chariteis begging for money and spending it as fast as they get it by sending out worthless crap would stop the process, maybe they could/would do some good for those needing the donations.

Maybe it's just me but this has been building for sometime now and I felt it needed to be said. I am not heartless in any form. I help whoever I can whenever I can and ask for nothing in return. And I can buy my own labels and calendars too.

I wonder what the salarys are for these people sitting around thinking up ways to drag donations from people, maybe they need to clean house and get rid of the dead weight and their salaries!!

NOTE:
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WORDS and alternate meanings...

I took an aptitude test recently online and the end result was a comfortably high I.Q. matching other tests I've take in school, but even better they named me as a WORD WARRIOR. Well let me tell you that being a published author, editor, and ghostwriter that made me very happy. I found an exercise we use to do when I began writing, a play on the spoken/written word. Check these out...

ADULT = is a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

BEAUTY PARLOR = a place women curl up and dye.

CHICKEN = the only creature we can eat before it's born and after it's dead.

CANNIBAL = someone fed up with people.

COMMITTEE = a body that keeps minutes while wasting hours.

DUST = mud with all the juice squeezed out.

HANDKERCHIEF = cold storage.

MOSQUITO = one insect that makes us feel better about flies.

SECRET = something we tell one person at a time.

SKELETON = a bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE = the pain that drives you to extraction.

RAISIN = grape with bad sunburn.

YAWN = an honest opinion openly expressed.

TOMORROW = one of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

WRINKLES = something other people have similar to my character lines.

These are just a few play on words. Words if you think about it are one of our greatest tools or one of our greatest weapons. I have a rapier wit, am a sarcastic type, but funny by most standards. Yes with only words I can cut to the quick... Luckily I'm so lovable!

I adore words, reading, writing and speaking them. So for today I'll say odios, bon voyage, sianara, chow, and goodbye...

ROCKER/RECLINER

Well I finally took the bull by the horns and ordered myself something for a change. I came into some money via a ghostwriting gig awhile back and have been sitting on it in case of an emergency. Never should have put that idea in FATES mind because as luck, or no luck would have it, I needed to replace and air-conditioning unit, and as I thought a so called 'green' unit cost lots of green, and left little behind for me.

Then of course horribly high winds blew through the desert for days and took most of my roof with them. Had to get a new one of those too, can you feel my cash dwindling?

Of course my sainted mother turned 90 so that had to be something very special and expensive. She is worth every cent believe me. Then my luck really went south when my beloved dog died and to make things worse if they possibly could be, her liter mate died 15 days later. The only thing that survived the vet was me and an near empty bank account. I'm sure I personally paid for half his new yacht.

Oh, just remembered, my birthday is coming soon so I did splurge and buy myself a new best friend, a teacup Chihuahua with all the fixens. So, okay, I lied!

But before the last of my money found it's way to another emergency, I ordered myself a new chair from R.C. Willey, it's a burgundy rocker/recliner and just gorgeous. And speaking of gorgeous the guy who delivered it was tall, dark and years too young for me but when he flirted with me, I flirted right back. Little did he know that the attention being paid to him was his tip! He sure was McHunky though. My Cougar claws nearly reached up and ripped his shirt off. I batted my long lashes so much he probably thought me spasdic! Oh well, 20 years younger and he'd have made a nice Cougar snack, grrrr!!!

So here I sit, reclined (alone) in my new chair. All I have left is pocket change to fall back on now but hell, what else could happen??????